Stop killing in name of religion: Bangladesh PM 

Stop killing in name of religion: Bangladesh PM 

DHAKA: (APP) Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pleaded with Islamist extremists to stop killing in the name of religion Saturday after 20 hostages were killed in a siege at a Dhaka restaurant.

"Islam is a religion of peace. Stop killing in the name of the religion," Hasina said in a late night televised address to the nation in which she declared two days of mourning.