66 Hindu homes vandalised and twenty torched in Bangladesh: Report

A mob broken sixty six homes and burned down a minimum of twenty Hindu homes in Asian country over an alleged blasphemous social media post amid protests by the minority community over incidents of temple devilment throughout Hindu deity Puja la last week, the authorities proclaimed on Monday. The combustion attack by crowds of over a hundred folks transpire} on Sunday evening during a village in rangpur lime district of Pirganj, about 255 metric linear unit from here, in keeping with bdnews24.com.

Police rushed to a fishing district as tensions mounted over rumors that a young Hindu from the village had "dishonored religion" in a Facebook post, the deputy police superintendent told reporters. , Mohammad Kamruzzaman. "The incident happened after 10 p.m. yesterday, but firefighters put out the flames in no time (and) the situation is now under control," he said.

Dozens of people have been arrested for the attacks and the spread of community hatred on social media, according to the report. On Wednesday and Thursday, four suspected Muslim fanatics were killed in Haziganj, the worst scene of violence, while the body of a devout Hindu was found in a pond near Begumbanj in Noakhali district.