The body of murdered Italian citizen Cesare Tavella lies in the morgue at the Dhaka Medical College in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, on September 29, 2015
Dhaka (AFP) - Bangladesh made its first arrests over an Italian aid worker's murder as authorities insisted on Monday the killing was a plot by the government's opponents to trigger anarchy and not the work of the Islamic State group.
Police paraded four people detained over last month's killing of 50-year-old Cesare Tavella along with a motorbike said to have been used as a getaway vehicle in the shooting late last month in Dhaka.
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