IS 'takes credit' for killing Jhenidah doctor

Islamic State has reportedly taken credit for the killing of Jamiruddin Khaza in Jhenidah, hours after the homeopathic doctor was found dead inside his dispensary.

The claim could not be independently verified. 

His stabbed body was discovered in the medicine store at Baliakhali village in Sadar upazila around 3:30pm on Thursday.

Site Intelligence Group, which monitors terrorist activities online, uploaded a post, saying the IS claimed responsibility for killing a man in Bangladesh identified as “Samir al-Din who had allegedly converted from Islam to Christianity.”

Locally known as Jamiruddin, 80, converted to Christianity from Islam some 15 years back, local police told our Jhenidah correspondent.

Five to six years into the conversion, he became a devotee of the great mystic Lalon Shah and started visiting Lalon's majar.

Then around a year ago, he started practising Islam again, said Hasan Hafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Sadar police there.

Jamiruddin had four wives, he said, adding that police were investigating the incident.