The ISIS claimed responsibility on December 26 for a suicide bombing attack on an Ahmadi mosque in Bangladesh. An ISIS bomber detonated an explosive belt at the mosque on Christmas Day, ,Al-Arabiya reported. According to ISIS, ‘dozens' were killed and injured, but according to the police only three people were injured. At the time of the attack, some 70 people were in the mosque, which is in Bagmara, around 170 miles from the capital Dhaka. The ISIS carried out other attacks in Bangladesh, including shootings in different locations, according to Al-Arabiya. The attacks on secular and rationalist bloggers that rocked the country in 2015 were carried out by a different group, Ansarullah Bangla Team. Ahmaddiya Muslims are a heterodox sect, which is regarded as heretical by mainstream Sunni Muslims because of the belief that the founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, is the messiah. The sect is therefore widely persecuted.