ISIS claims attack on Italian priest

ISIS on Thursday claimed responsibility for shooting and injuring an elderly Italian priest in Bangladesh, a day after the third attack on a foreigner out of five similar assaults owned up by the dreaded group in the country.

Piero Parolari, 57, was shot at from close range by unidentified motorbike-borne assailants on Wedn-esday while he was cycling down to a Catholic missionary hospital in northern Dinajpur — some 414 km north of Dhaka - where he also worked as a doctor.

The priest, who came to Bangladesh 35 years ago, suffered serious injuries in his neck and skull was the second Italian national and the third foreigner to have been targetted by the ISIS in Bangladesh in recent weeks.