Bangladesh Says IS Accumulation Not Abaft Professor's Murder

Bangladesh on Monday alone the Islamic State group's affirmation it was abaft the annihilation of a advanced assistant and said "local militants" were responsible.

Rezaul Karim Siddique was dead on Saturday by attackers wielding machetes, the latest in a alternation of murders of
civil bloggers and advanced activists that has larboard the country reeling.

The IS accumulation claimed albatross for the advance through its account agency, adage the 58-year-old assistant who wrote balladry and fiction had been murdered for "calling to atheism".

A man holds a account of Bangladeshi assistant Rezaul Karim Siddique, who was afraid to afterlife by anonymous attackers in Rajshahi on April 23, 2016

"Local militants are committing the murders application name of the IS," said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan in response.

He aswell alone claims of deepening law and adjustment in the mainly Sunni Muslim country, which has suffered a contempo access of murders of minorities and foreigners as able-bodied as of bloggers and activists.

"Murders are accident everywhere in the world," Khan told reporters.

"The law and adjustment bearings in Bangladesh is bigger than abounding developed countries," he added, calling the murders "isolated incidents".

The IS has in contempo months claimed albatross for the killing of Christians, Hindu priests and associates of the boyhood Sufi, Ahmadi and Shiite faiths in Bangladesh.

The bounded annex of Al-Qaeda has aswell claimed the murders of civil bloggers and activists, including the killing this ages of a 26-year-old agnostic law apprentice who had mocked Islam on his Facebook page.

Bangladesh police, however, said they doubtable banned bounded Islamist outfits, the Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh and the Ansarullah Bangla Team, of getting abaft the killings.

"We accept already articular some suspects complex in antecedent killings and incidences of attacks," Khan told reporters.

On Sunday badge arrested a apprentice from Rajshahi University area Siddique taught, although the coursing was still on for added suspects.

Police said the anonymous apprentice of accessible administering was a affiliate of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the apprentice addition of Bangladesh's better Islamist action affair Jamaat-e-Islami.

A long-running political crisis in Bangladesh, which is clearly secular, has radicalised opponents of the government and analysts say Islamist extremists affectation a growing danger.