Bangladeshi authorities on Tuesday recovered Hindu youth Mithun Sarkar's body from a canal in Naogaon's Mahadebpur area, further fuelling anger over the mob-led killings of minorities in the country.
25-year-old Sarkar was said to have jumped into the canal to escape the mob that was chasing him, but ended up drowning.
Videos from the scene show his body later recovered by divers, and taken for autopsy.
#BREAKING: Yet Another Hindu Killed in Bangladesh. Minority Hindu Youth dies in Bangladesh by jumping into a canal after being chased by a mob. In Mahadebpur of Naogaon, a young man named Mithun Sarkar (25) died after drowning while being chased by locals on suspicion of theft. pic.twitter.com/leXEFgPvCf
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The mob was allegedly chasing him over suspicions of theft, similar to the case of Dipu Chandra Das—another of the Hindu men killed by mob attacks recently. Das was killed for suspected provocative remarks against Prophet Muhammad.
While an investigation into Das's case later showed that the mob had been acting based on hearsay, no such findings have been made in Sarkar's case.
Sarkar's death also comes barely a day after the brutal murders of two Hindu men on Monday—Rana Pratap Bairagi, a businessman and journalist, as well as a businessman named Sarat Chakraborty (alias Moni).
While Bairagi was reportedly shot in the head, Chakraborty, who had made a Facebook post in December lamenting the state of his homeland, was hacked to death.
Bangladesh continues to witness a spate of attacks on minority communities, as another Hindu man was killed in Narsingdi on Monday. According to local media reports, Moni Chakraborty, a grocery trader, was attacked with sharp weapons around 10 pm.
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Sarkar is reportedly the sixth Hindu man killed due to mob violence in Bangladesh over the December 12 murder of Sharif Osman Hadi.
Hadi was the leader of the radical party Inquilab Mancha, which had played an important part in the ouster of ex-PM Sheikh Hasina. India has still been implicated in his death in the latest chargesheet prepared by the Dhaka police, which names 17 people, and will be submitted to the court on Wednesday.
One of the main claims made by the chargesheet is that Faisal Karim, one of Hadi's killers, was in India, despite his claims that he was in Dubai.
The Muhammad Yunus-led interim government has come under a lot of pressure to take action in both cases ahead of the February 12 elections, as it faces the radical party on one side, and international scrutiny over the minority killings on the other.
