Another Italian national shot at

Unnamed assailants shot at an Italian missionary working in the country’s northern district Dinajpur on Wednesday morning.
The victim, Piero Parolari, 64, also a physician, was evacuated to the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka by a Bangladesh Air Force helicopter later in the day. He is assistant pastor of the Dinajpur parish.
Dinajpur Medical College Hospital physician Partha Sarathi Roy said that a bullet pierced Piero Parolari’s neck.
Piero bled profusely but it was not life threatening, said physicians at Dinajpur Medical College Hospital.
He was admitted to the CMH in Dhaka at about 6:00pm and kept in observation, said a physician concerned.
Dinajpur superintendent of police Ruhul Amin said that they picked up 10-11 suspects for interrogation.
He claimed that the motive for the attack was to put the government in an awkward situation as similar attacks were carried out at places recently.
Piero Parolari is a physician who provides free treatment to tuberculosis patients and he has huge popularity here, Ruhul said.

Piero Parolari

Dinajpur Police Bureau of Investigation additional superintendent of police NM Nasiruddin said that the incident took place at Suihari in the town between 7:30am and 8:15am when the pastor was heading for his workplace, Saint Vincent Hospital on Mission Road, on a bicycle.
‘He was attacked from the back few minutes after he started from his dormitory [Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions House] at the town’s north for the hospital some four kilometres in the south,’ said Nasiruddin.
A witness, Nurul Islam, told police investigators that three people on a motorbike — the rider in helmet and the last one covering his face with a long scarf —  hit the father’s bicycle. One of them punched him on the left eye.
One of the attackers shot at the father and the bullet pierced the neck, Nurul told investigators, adding that the attackers went away through an alley.
The investigators found an empty cartridge of .9mm calibre bullets which might be sent to Dhaka for ballistic test.
‘The place was apparently calm in the morning and none could follow the whole episode,’ said Rapid Action Battalion-13 deputy commander Abu Farhan Karim.
The priest, Piero Parolari, has been staying Bangladesh since 1985. He was spiritual director in Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions seminary in Rome, the capital of Italy, between 2001 and 2007.
This is the third gun attack on foreign nationals in less than two months. Motorbike riders shot dead two other foreign nationals — Italian citizen Cesare Tavella in Dhaka on September 29 and Japanese researcher Kunio Hoshi in Rangpur on October 3.
On October 5, Faith Bible Church in Pabna pastor Luke Sarker sustained a knife attack by three men who went to his house to discuss religion, the police said.
SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors radical Islamic websites, claimed that militant outfit Islamic State claimed responsibility for the murders of the Italian aid worker and the Japanese man. The government rejected the claim saying that there was no existence of Islamic State in Bangladesh.
The home minister, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, said that Piero was offered police protection, but he rejected the offer. The minister said that they were hunting for the attackers.
Italian largest circulated daily La Repubblica quoted Italian ambassador Mario Palma in Dhaka as saying, ‘Therefore episodes of violence or reprisal are being apprehended, and recently the Bangladesh police have operated hundreds of detentions and arrests.’
The ambassador was also quoted as saying, ‘In all this, despite the killing of Tavella, the alert was already loosened, but this new episode demonstrates that we must use every precaution, even if it is in the human nature to try to live a normal life. In any case, I personally feel more dangerous some European capitals then not Dhaka.’

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