Dhaka: A Hindu temple has been vandalised in Bangladesh in a fresh case of communal unrest amidst days of violence unleashed by unidentified people who attacked the minority community’s places of worship during the Durga Puja celebrations over alleged “blasphemous incident”, prompting a minority group to announce a countrywide hunger strike, media reports said on Sunday.
Hindu-owned temples and shops in Feni, about 157 km from the capital city of Dhaka, have been vandalised and robbed during fresh clashes on Saturday which broke out after an attack on demonstrators who were protesting against the attacks on Durga Puja venues in several places in Bangladesh, the Dhaka Tribune newspaper reported. The clashes left at least 40 people, including the officer in-charge Nizamuddin of Feni model police station, injured, it said.
This story is from the October 18, 2021 edition of The Times of India Mumbai.
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