Location: Tangali
Date: 30-Apr-16
Minority: Hindu
Description of incident: a Hindu tailor was murdered by unidentified men outside his shop. The victim had previously been arrested in 2012 on allegations of making derogatory remarks about Islam

Location: Rajshahi
Date: 07-May-16
Minority: Sufi
Description of incident: a Sufi cleric is murdered by unknown militants

Location: Bandarban
Date: 14-May-16
Minority: Buddhist
Description of incident: a 75-year-old Buddhist priest died after his throat was cut by a group of assailants at a temple in Baishari.

Location: Gaibandha
Date: 25-May-16
Minority: Hindu
Description of incident: a Hindu businessman was murdered in his shop by unknown assailants in an attack subsequently claimed by IS, though local police arrested a Hindu youth who they claimed had a financial dispute with the victim.

Location: Natore
Date: 05-Jun-16
Minority: Christian
Description of incident: a 65-year-old Christian grocer was murdered by unknown assailants in an attack subsequently claimed by IS

Location: Jhenaidah
Date: 07-Jun-16
Minority: Hindu
Description of incident: A 70-year-old Hindu priest was attacked by three militants, who cut his throat. IS claimed responsibility for the killing, though the authorities blamed the attack on domestic extremists

Location: Pabna
Date: 10-Jun-16
Minority: Hindu
Description of incident: a 62-year-old Hindu monastery worker was killed by a group of unknown assailants with machetes while taking an early morning stroll. IS subsequently took credit for the attack

Location: Gaibandha
Date: 08-Feb-16
Minority: Hindu
Description of incident: A Hindu trader is reportedly beheaded by unknown assailants.

Location: Panchagarth
Date: 21-Feb-16
Minority: Hindu
Description of incident: A Hindu priest is murdered and three others injured after men armed with machetes launched an attack on a temple. IS claimed responsibility for the attack.

Location: Dhaka
Date: 25-Apr-16
Minority:
Description of incident: a young law student was killed by militants, apparently in reprisal for his secular writings.

Location: Khagrachhari
Date: 29-Apr-16
Minority: Hindu
Description of incident: the body of a Hindu indigenous farmer is found. Neighbours believed he had been murdered a few days before by Bengali settler

Location: Nowgaon
Date: 03/09/2016
Minority: Hindu
Description of incident: the body of a Hindu barber, murdered by unknown assailants, is found in a paddy field.

Location: Dhaka
Date: 25/04/2016
Minority: LGBT
Description of incident: the editor of an LGBT magazine and his friend were killed at his home by a group of assailants with machetes

Location: Dhaka
Date: 01/07/2016
Minority: N/A
Description of incident: an attack on a cafe in Dhaka by armed militants ended with 20 hostages, most of them foreigners, dead. IS claimed responsibility for the attack, though authorities attributed it to a domestic extremist group.

Location: Bandarban
Date: 30/06/2016
Minority: Hindu
Description of incident: a Buddhist farmer was killed with machetes. IS subsequently claimed to have been behind the attack

Location: Kurigram
Date: 22/03/2016
Minority: Christian
Description of incident: militants armed with knives killed a 68-year-old Christian convert. IS subsequently presented the attack as a lesson to others, though their claim of responsibility was dismissed as 'bogus' by authorities

Location: Rajshahi
Date: 23/04/2016
Minority: N/A
Description of incident: a liberal English literature professor was murdered by religious extremists, allegedly for calling to atheism, though he had not publicly spoken against religion, in an attack claimed by IS.

Location: Jhenaidah
Date: 01/07/2016
Minority: Hindu
Description of incident: a Hindu monastery worker was killed by unknown militants with machetes.

Location: Jhenaidah
Date: 07/01/2016
Minority: Christian
Description of incident: militants allegedly associated with IS killed a Christian convert, though the authorities dispute the involvement of IS.

Location: Jhenaidah
Date: 14/03/2016
Minority: Shi'a
Description of incident: a Shi'a preacher was murdered in south-western Bangladesh by militants. IS claimed responsibility for the attack.

Location: Kushtia
Date: 20/05/2016
Minority: Christian
Description of incident: a doctor on a motorcycle was killed by militants with a machete. The unidentified assailants were subsequently able to escape. IS, who reportedly took credit for the attack, claimed that the attack was carried out because the victim had called to Christianity.