New Delhi: After the attack on a temple in Pakistan, a new incident of vandalizing at least four Hindu temples has reported at Bangladesh’s Khulna district. Miscreants reportedly also damaged some shops and houses belonging to the minority community in the area.
Local police have arrested 10 people in this case and also beefed up security in the locality to avoid a communal clash in the locality, according to a local media report.
The report state that the incident occurred at Shiali village in Rupsha Upazila on Saturday after a confrontation between Hindu and Muslim inhabitants.
Victims claimed that miscreants had attacked them and later the Shiali Mahasmashan temple. They vandalized the idols in the temple and the crematorium.
Later, the furious mob went to the Shiali Purbapara area, where they damaged the idols of Hindu gods and goddesses in Hari Mandir, Durga Mandir and the Govinda Mandir, the report said adding that about six shops and two houses belonged to local Hindu community members were also vandalized.
Local mosque’s Imam Maulana Nazim Uddin said that local Hindus were going towards the Shiali Mahasmashan temple while singing kirtan during the Esha prayers, one of the five mandatory Islamic prayers, which led to the scuffle.
Earlier, a video went of damaging Hindu idols in Pakistan went viral on social media but later local community retorted the temple.