Bangladesh continues to witness a spate of attacks on minority communities, as another Hindu man was killed in Narsingdi on Monday night, just hours after a similar incident in Jessore district.
According to local media reports, Moni Chakraborty, a grocery trader, was attacked with sharp weapons around 10 pm. He later died of his injuries.
The motive of the killing has yet to be ascertained. On December 19, Moni had reportedly written a Facebook post, expressing concern about violence in the country, describing his birthplace as having become "a valley of death". Police are investigating the incident.
In #Bangladesh, Hindu businessman and journalist Rana Kanti Bairagi (45) was shot dead by unidentified assailants in public at #KapaliaBazar in Jessore’s Monirampur on January 5, triggering panic and raising concerns over law and order ahead of elections.
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Earlier, Rana Pratap Bairagi, a resident of Arua village in Keshabpur upazila of Jessore in Khulna Division, was fatally shot in the head by unidentified men on Monday.
Bairagi, who owned an ice-making factory in Kopaliya Bazar in Monirampur, was also the acting editor of a newspaper called Dainik BD Khabar, published from Narail.
According to a report in Prothom Alo newspaper, three assailants on a motorcycle called him out from the ice factory, took him to an alley, and then shot him at close range in the head before fleeing. He died on the spot.
"Bairagi was shot three times in the head and his throat was slit," a police officer was quoted as saying by the daily.
There has been a sharp spike in incidents of violence against members of the Hindu community in Bangladesh, which has plunged into political turmoil ever since the Sheikh Hasina regime was ousted following a youth uprising last year.
Khokon Chandra Das (50), a Hindu man, was brutally attacked, hacked, and set on fire on the eve of the New Year. He later succumbed to his injuries.
On December 24, another Hindu man, Amrit Mondal, was lynched over alleged extortion in Rajbari town's Pangsha upazila.
On December 18, Dipu Chandra Das (25) was lynched by a mob and his body set on fire over alleged blasphemy in Mymensingh city.
