Elderly Sufi woman found with throat slit in Bangladesh
By AFP - 30 January 2017 @ 6:25 PM
DHAKA: An elderly woman believed by followers to be a Sufi mystic has been found with her throat slit in Bangladesh, police said Monday, amid a wave of religiously motivated attacks.
The body of 72-year-old Nurjahan Begum was found in her shanty home in the capital Dhaka late Sunday, local police chief Faruqul Alam told AFP. “Her throat was slit,” he said. The woman was considered a “pir“, or Sufi leader, by her followers who built her a home and donated food and cash, the English-language Daily Star newspaper reported.
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