Lagatar24 Desk
Munshiganj, Oct.16: Communal violence offenders vandalised six idols of the Daniapara Maha Shoshan Kali Mandir at Rashunia union in Munshiganj’s Sirajdikhan upazila on Saturday.
According to The Daily Star, the vandalism occurred between 3 and 4 a.m., as confirmed by Assistant Superintendent of Police Md Rashedul Islam (Sirajdikhan Circle). “The temple had no security and only the idols were vandalised,” he said.
“The main entrance lock was found broken and the tin shed was also cut and all the idols in the temple have been vandalised,” said Shuvrata Dev Nath Vanu, General Secretary of the Daniapara Mahasmashan Kali Mandir Committee, reported The Daily Star.
“We are preparing to file a complaint with the police,” he said.
“Such an incident had never happened before in the temple,” added Shuvrata.
After word of the alleged desecration of the Holy Quran at a Durga Puja location on the bank of Nanuar Dighi spread on social media on Wednesday, communal violence erupted in numerous parts of Bangladesh.
Several puja locations in the Chandpur, Chittagong, Gazipur, Bandarban, Chapainawabganj, and Moulvibazar areas have been vandalised. Several people were killed in the fighting.
A man called Jatan Kumar Saha was killed and 17 people were injured in an attack in Bangladesh’s Noakhali district’s Begumganj Upazila on Friday.
On Friday, a crowd attacked an ISKCON temple in Bangladesh’s Noakhali area, killing one of the community’s members, according to the group.
