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Story highlights1 dead, 3 wounded when gunmen attack any mosque inside Bogra, any police official saysISIS claims responsibility for that shooting in the statement distributed by simply its supportersISIS had claimed an Italian's slaying inside Dhaka; police mentioned 4 arrested weren't tied to the groupAbout 20 people were conducting their particular evening prayers inside a mosque inside Bogra, a district throughout northern Bangladesh with regards to 125 miles (200 kilometers) northwest regarding Dhaka, when gunmen burst throughout Thursday.

At least a single person died and also three more were wounded prior to become able to the assailants fled, Bogra police Superintendent Mohammad Asaduzzaman said.

ISIS -- any Sunni extremist group that's taken over vast swaths of Syria and also Iraq along with may be tied to end up being able to terror attacks across Asia, Africa and Europe -- claimed credit score for the attack in a statement distributed on the actual internet by supporters.

Asaduzzaman mentioned authorities knew with the declare however couldn't immediately verify it.

Regardless, Thursday's mosque attack may always be the newest example in which ISIS has boasted about carrying out violence in Bangladesh.

One such instance came in September, when 51-year-old Italian national Cesare Tavella had been shot dead whilst jogging home throughout Dhaka after swimming inside the American International School's pool.

A statement through ISIS asserted then in which "the soldiers with the Caliphate throughout Bangladesh" tracked Tavella then shot him, according to Flashpoint Global Partners, a group that tracks jihadist activity.

"We say to all as well as any citizens with the Crusader coalition, anyone won't end up being safe within the Muslim lands," ISIS warned, "and this truly is exactly the beginning."

Weeks later, though, police inside the Bangladeshi money stated 4 Bangladeshi citizens ended up arrested within Tavella's killing. Dhaka police commissioner Muntashirul Islam described these suspects as contract killers hired by a person known as "Big Brother" for you to kill the foreigner, preferably with "white skin."

None of those 4 arrested men as well as "Big Brother," whom hadn't been caught as of late October, has been believed to get virtually any ties to ISIS, according to Islam.