AMN /

Two criminal cases have been filed against three men arrested for hacking to death a Hindu tailor in Bangladesh. The murder of Nikhil Joarder by suspected Islamist militants on Saturday was the latest in a wave of murders over the past three years.

More than 20 people, including bloggers, academics, foreigners and religious minorities, have been killed. So-called Islamic State said it carried out the attack. However the authorities deny the group is active in the country. Police in the central district of Tangail say that among those they have detained over the murder is the Principal of a madrassa or Islamic religious school.