Incidents of attacks on Hindus do not seem to be ending in neighbouring Bangladesh. In yet another tragic incident, a 28-year-old Hindu man was found dead in the Moulvibazar area of northeast Bangladesh on Wednesday (11th February). The body of the victim, who was a tea garden worker, was found lying in a pool of blood with his hands and legs tied with ropes.
As per reports, the police found the body of the victim, Ratan Shuvo Kar, in the tea garden around 200 km northeast of Dhaka. Ratan Shuvo Kar worked in the Champaran Tea Garden under the Islampur union, as confirmed by the Kamalganj police station officer-in-charge Abdul Awal.
Ratan’s body was first spotted by locals in the morning, around 10 a.m. The body had visible injury marks. Ratan’s elder brother, Laxman Kar, said that the family had been looking for him. “This morning (Wednesday), we were informed that his body was lying in the garden. We went there and identified him. We do not know why he was killed,” Laxman said. The body was sent to Moulvibazar Sadar Hospital for postmortem.
According to reports, this is the second killing of a Hindu in the Islamic country since Monday (9th February). Just days ago, a rice trader was brutally hacked to death in Mymensingh. A statement by the South Asia Forum for Freedom of Religion Belief said that there have been at least 15 targeted murders of Hindus in the last 45 days in Bangladesh.
