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After the mayhem for hours on Sunday afternoon, two temples in adjacent Habiganj’s Madhabpur came under attack, police and witnesses said.<\/p>\n
Six persons were arrested for their alleged involvement in the attack.<\/p>\n
Border Guard Bangladesh has been deployed in Nasirnagar and Madhabpur Upazila headquarters along with the Rapid Action Battalion, police and Armed Police Battalion.<\/p>\n
The district’s Deputy Commissioner Rezwanur Rahman and Superintendent of Police Mizanur Rahman inspected the area later in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
But the leaders of the local Hindu community say the panic that has gripped them is not going away.<\/p>\n
Islami Oikya Jote leader late Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini’s district Brahmanbarhia is a stronghold of the Islamist parties.<\/p>\n
In January, a music college named after the renowned composer and music teacher Ustad Alauddin Khan was vandalised in the district following the death of a madrasa student.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s attack was carried out in a style followed by the attackers of Buddhist community at Ramu in Cox’s Bazar in 2012 on a similar allegation of disrespect towards Islam through a Facebook post.<\/p>\n
Locals said Nasirnagar’s incident started with a Facebook post by one Rasraj Das, son of Jagannath Das from Harinberh village under Haripur Union Parishad.<\/p>\n
Police detained Rasraj on Friday immediately after the allegation of blasphemy had surfaced against him.<\/p>\n
He was sent to jail following a court order, SP Mizanur said.<\/p>\n
Protests against Rasraj’s post were called under the banner of ‘Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat’ in Habiganj district headquarters and Nasirnagar. Demonstrations were also announced in Habiganj’s Madhabpur.<\/p>\n
A group of madrasa students demonstrated on the premises of Brahmanbarhia Press Club while hundreds of people blocked Sarail-Nasirnagar-Lakhai road by torching tyres on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
SP Mizanur, quoting witnesses, said a group of the demonstrators, armed with local weapons, vandalised the temples at Duttubarhi, Namashudraparha and Ghoshparha, and Jagannath Temple and Goura Temple.<\/p>\n
They also vandalised and looted the houses of the Hindu families. Several priests were injured in the attack, the SP said.<\/p>\n
One platoon of BGB was deployed first to bring the situation under control. The other forces joined them later.<\/p>\n
SP Mizanur said preparations to file separate cases over the attacks were under way. Six suspected attackers have been arrested, he added.<\/p>\n
BGB Battalion-12 Commander Lt Col Shah Ali said the border guards were deployed at the district magistrate’s request.<\/p>\n
Deputy Commissioner Rezwanur told the media that those responsible for the attack would get ‘exemplary’ punishment after investigation.<\/p>\n
Nasirnagar Upazila Parishad Vice-Chairman Anjan Deb said, “The situation is apparently calm now but the Hindu community is still panicked.”<\/p>\n
Madhabpur Upazila Puja Udjapon Committee chief Sunil Das said the members of the religious minority community were pained by the attack, which was carried out a day after Kali Puja.<\/p>\n
SP Mizanur blamed Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir for the attack.<\/p>\n
“The opportunist quarter carried out this attack to embarrass the government. Those behind it will be found out and dealt with in a tough manner,” he said.<\/p>\n
Source: http:\/\/m.bdnews24.com\/en\/detail\/bangladesh\/1235136<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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