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Minority groups in Bangladesh reported 2,010 incidents of communal violence across the country between 4-20 August 2024. 1,705 families were directly affected in the violence. Among them, 157 families had their homes and businesses were attacked, looted, vandalized, and set on fire. Lands of some of the families were forcibly occupied.
The idol of Asura was vandalized and left.This caused panic in the area. Earlier, around 6am, 'more than three hundred people' attacked the family temple of Subal Das, a businessman from Kashimpur Paschimpara area, and the local Palpara Namabazar public temple, Deputy Commissioner of Police Zakir Hasan.
The homes of Shahjahan Khan, former Minister, and AFM Bahauddin Nasim, former member of parliament, were vandalized. [2] The home of Mohit Ur Rahman Shanto, member of parliament for Mymensingh-4, was vandalized. [2] The residence of Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, former captain of Bangladesh National Cricket Team and member of parliament, was burned ...
DHAKA (Reuters) -Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina called on Tuesday for action against those involved in "killings and vandalism" in the country last month, her first comments since ...
The Dumuria Sharbajaneen temple under Ramachandrapur Union too was set on fire. Two Hindu houses, one belonging to a local Awami League leader, were set on fire in Banogram Union. [27] On 3 April, Miscreants torched a Hindu temple after vandalism of its three idols of god and goddess in the same place again. [28]
In 2021, many temples and houses of Hindus were broken and vandalized after an attack on them on Narendra Modi visit to Bangladesh by Hefazat-e-Islam and other radical groups as anti-Modi protests. [ 149 ] [ 150 ] [ 151 ] Similarly, there were attacks on Hindus in 2020, after some of them supported France after the Murder of Samuel Paty . [ 152 ]
The 2016 Nasirnagar violence was an attack on the minority Hindu community led by radical Islamist groups in Nasirnagar Upazila, Bangladesh over an allegedly defamatory social media post by a Hindu fisherman against Islam on 30 October 2016. The attack left 19 temples and approximately 300 houses vandalized and over 100 people injured. [1] [2]
Investigators believe the suspects attempted to douse the fire with the water, then used the fire extinguisher when that failed.