“It’s still not clear the motive behind the murder - crime or terrorist act – of the aid worker Cesare Tavella… The responsibility for the murder claimed by ISIS is yet to be verified,” it said in a red notice on Tuesday.
Tavella was gunned down on Monday evening in Gulshan’s diplomatic enclave.
He had been employed by the Netherlands-based NGO, ICCO, and was managing a food security project financed by the Netherlands embassy.
His colleagues at the mission conveyed their condolences and sympathy to Tavella’s family, friends and colleagues.
“He started his work in May 2015, he did an amazing job. He was well respected and liked,” the embassy said in a Facebook post.
It strongly condemned killing and urged the law-enforcing agencies “to promptly investigate this barbaric aggression and bring the perpetrators to justice”.