Story highlights Two assailants arrived on a motorbike, hurling grenades, and slit the priest's throat

Police suspect an outlawed Islamist organization carried out the attack

Numerous secularists or members of minority religions have been attacked in Bangladesh

Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN) A Hindu priest was killed and a devotee injured in northern Bangladesh on Sunday in the latest attack on minority religious figures in the predominantly Muslim nation.

Police suspect the outlawed Islamist organization Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh carried out the attack, said Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of the Bangladesh Police.

The 50-year-old Hindu priest was attacked by two assailants in a temple in Bangladesh's northern district of Panchagarh on Sunday morning, Panchagarh district police chief Giasuddin Ahmed said.

The attackers approached on a motorcycle, hurling grenades and firing bullets at the temple, before slitting the priest's throat and fleeing, Ahmed said.

A devotee at the temple was also injured in the assault.

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