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Bangladesh PM rejects IS link to foreigners' murder

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday dismissed the Islamic State's claim to have killed two foreigners, saying police still had no evidence to confirm the jihadist group was behind the murders.

Her remarks came a day after 66-year-old Japanese citizen Hoshi Kunio was shot dead in northern Bangladesh, the second foreigner to be murdered in the South Asian nation in less than a week.

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