Bahraini local media reported that the Sunni Awqaf (Endowments) in Bahrain has dismissed 18 Bangladeshi nationals from working in mosques since one of the muezzins killed an imam of a mosque, where he works, and chopped his body into pieces.

A Bahraini court sentenced a muezzin (an Asian national) to death on Wednesday (October 31, 2018) for killing and dismembering a mosque imam

A Sunni cleric accused the Department of Sunni Endowments (Waqf) of deliberately not recruiting Bahraini Muezzins, noting that the Department of Awqaf is controlled by political societies.

A Sunni mosque imam who was brutally killed by an associate of his, who worked as a Muezzin at the mosque.