A Buddhist monk was found hacked to death at a monastery in south east Bangladesh on Saturday morning.

The 70-five year-old monk, identified as Mong Shwe U Chak, was chief of a monastery located in the hilly district of Bandarban.

Police said the monk was found dead with slit throat inside the Buddhist temple. They said Chak was murdered Friday night and his dead body was discovered early Saturday morning.

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"He was hacked to death," a local leader Ounthwai Chand confirmed, according to a Prothom Alo report.  

The police have revealed that an investigation has been launched into the matter. Meanwhile, the police are yet to determise the identity of the killers as well as motive behind the murder.

"This monk killing is the first of its kind in the hilly district. We are investigating to unearth the reason behind the murder and the killers will be brought to justice after the move," district police chief Mizanur Rahman told Dhaka Tribune.

The murder of the Buddhist monk is the latest in a series of murders of bloggers, writers, liberals and Christians in Bangladesh.

A minority Muslim leader and preacher was murdered by machete-wielding assailants in the northwest part of the country last week.

In a similar attack, the publisher of Bangladesh's first LGBT magazine Xulhaz Mannan was hacked to death in the last week of April month. 

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