Temple ransacked in Gazipur
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| Miscreants torched a kitchen of the house of Hindu Awami League leader in Morelganj upazila of Bagerhat early Saturday. Photo: STARStar Online Report |
Unidentified miscreants set fire to a temple and houses of two Hindu Awami League men in Bagerhat and ransacked a temple in Gazipur on Saturday.
BAGERHAT
A temple and houses of two Hindu AL men were set ablaze in Morelganj upazila early Saturday.
The temple was situated at Ramchandrapur union of the upazila while the houses at Banagram union and Baharbula village of the same union, reports our Bagerhat correspondent.
Miscreants set fire to Dumuria Sarbojanin Puja Mandir in Ramchandrapur union at any time from 12:00am to 1:00am, said Aslam Hossain, officer-in-charge of Morelganj Police Station.
The dress of goddess Durga gutted before the locals managed to douse the fire, the OC added.
Meanwhile, some criminals also set fire to the house of Narayanchandra Bashu Chowdhury, president of Banagram union AL unit around the same time, the OC said.
A store room and kitchen of the AL leader was gutted in the fire.
Hearing the hue and scream of Bashu's family members, locals rushed to the spot and managed to quench the fire.
Bashu claimed that local BNP men might have set the fire for achieving political gain.
Another house of a Hindu community people was torched around the same time at Baharbula village in the same union, the police official said.
Taposh Sen, whose house was gutted, is an AL activist, said Bashu.
Meanwhile, MD Jahor Ali, Morelganj upazila nirbahi officer, and Pankaj Chand Roy, additional superintendent of police in Bagerhat, visited the spot.
On the other hand, Khandaker Rafiqul Islam, superintendent of police in Bagerhat, termed the incidents 'mysterious'.
They are now investigation the incidents, the SP added.
GAZIPUR
Unidentified people vandalised the idol of Saraswati in Kashimpur Namabazar area early Saturday.
Saiful Islam, a sub-inspector of an outpost under Joydevpur Police Station, confirmed the incident to The Daily Star.
Source: The Daily Star. Link
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