A Hindu priest was hacked to death in western Bangladesh Friday, police said, in the latest in a series of attacks on religious minorities by suspected Islamists.

"Shyamananda Das Babaji Moharaj, a priest of the Radhamadan Gopal Bigraha Math in Jhenaidah district was hacked by three helmetted men riding a  motor-cycle as he was walking on a highway adjacent to his temple early in the morning," deputy district police chief Gopinath Kanjilal told AFP