IS claims attack on Shiite mosque in Bangladesh: SITE

The attackers struck during evening prayers on Thursday

Dhaka

: The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on worshippers at a Shiite mosque in northern Bangladesh that killed one and wounded three others, the US-based monitoring organisation SITE said Friday.

The attackers struck during evening prayers on Thursday, a day after police shot dead a top Islamist militant accused of hurling grenades at the country's main Shiite shrine in the capital Dhaka last month, killing two people.