Mob attacks Hindu houses, businesses in Bangladesh
Dhaka, April 12 -- Shops and households owned by Hindus were vandalised in two mob attacks in western Kushtia and northwestern Rangpur in Bangladesh on Saturday. An irate mob attacked several Hindu households and businesses in pre-dawn hours over the death of a Muslim youth in their neighbourhood in Rangpur, 300-odd kms northwest of Dhaka.
A "third party" carried out the vandalism to divert police's attention from the overnight murder of a person named Rakib Hassan, police claimed.
Prothom Alo newspaper said more than a hundred members of the Hindu community live in the Daspara market area where Hassan was murdered allegedly by drug peddler Mohammad Momin over a previous dispute.
Reporters found Momin's house vacant as he went into hiding w...
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