Parolari was shot and wounded in the neck in an attack by three assailants in northern Bangladesh on Wednesday, police and a medics said. The attack occurred in Dinajpur district, around 400 km (250 miles) north of the capital, Dhaka.
The attack follows the murder in Bangladesh of another Italian aid worker in late September and a Japanese citizen in early October. Both were also claimed by Islamic State.
Muslim-majority Bangladesh has suffered a rising tide of Islamist violence over the past year. Four online critics of religious militancy have been hacked to death, among them a U.S. citizen of Bangladesh origin.
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