A 72-year-old woman, believed to be a Sufi mystic, was found with her throat slit in her house in Dhaka, police said on Monday, amid a series of systematic assaults in Bangladesh targeting minorities, Sufis and bloggers.
Nurjahan Begum, who lived alone, was found dead in her tin-roofed house near the Martyrs’ Graveyard in the capital’s Mirpur last evening, police officer Farukul Islam said. “Her throat was slit,” the Daily Star newspaper quoted Islam as saying. The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College morgue for an autopsy.