Police have filed a case against three unidentified people with Kaunia police station over the killing of a Japanese national in Rangpur.
Officer-in-charge of Kaunia police station Rezaul Karim filed the case around 10:30pm Saturday, the OC told our sister concern Bangla Tribune.
Japanese national Kunio Hoshi, 65, was shot by masked gunmen in broad daylight in Alutari area under Kawnia upazila of Rangpur district around 11am Saturday.
Four people were detained for interrogation over the murder. They are Hoshi's business partner Hira, house-owner Zakaria Haque Bala, rickshaw-puller Munnaf and a local resident Murad Hossain.
Hoshi took a farmland on lease from a Bangladeshi family who live in the Munshipara area of Rangpur district. Two members of this family live in Japan. He cultivated grazing-friendly Napier grass on a two-acre land of the farm.
International Islamist militant organisation Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for killing Hoshi and threatened of more attacks.
Earlier, after the murder of Italian national Cesare Tavella in Dhaka last week, the IS made the same claim. But the Government of Bangladesh said it had found no IS links in Tavella murder.
The government also claimed that the militant group had no existence in Bangladesh because all of its previous attempts to recruit and organise had been stamped out with arrests.
