Name Kunio Hoshi | ||
Kunio Hoshi buried in Rangpur I News & Current Affairs
Kunio Hoshi was a 66-year-old Japanese man who was shot in Rangpur, Bangladesh. Responsibility for his death was claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). Hoshi wad also known by the aliases Hita Kuchi and Golam Kibria.
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Background
Kunio first went to Bangladesh in 2011 and had visited every year since. He last arrived about five months earlier in June 2015 in Bangladesh. Hoshi leased land for Tk82,000, paying a Tk42,000 down payment on May 7 and the remaining Tk40,000 on July 15. According to police sources, Hoshi was not a wealthy man who had come to Bangladesh to improve his condition, adding that the relatively low cost of living in Bangladesh and its rich soil drove him to try his luck in Bangladesh.
Death
Kunio Hoshi was killed near Rangpur in northern Bangladesh, five days after an Italian citizen was murdered in the capital of Dhaka. The Islamic State of Iraq and the levant claimed responsibility for killing Hoshi on Twitter, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, a US monitoring organization. The jihadist group also said it killed Cesare Tavella, from Italy, in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone on 28 September 2015. Kunio Hoshi was shot three times in a remote rural region of Rangpur, where he had invested in a grass cultivation project.
Burial
Home ministry sources said the Japanese embassy in Dhaka expressed a desire for Hoshi to be buried in Islamic tradition in Bangladesh.