Hundreds of members of a hardline Islamist group attacked Hindu temples and a practice in jap Bangladesh on Sunday, police and an area journalist mentioned, as violence unfold throughout the nation within the wake of a go to by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Local police and medical doctors have mentioned at the very least 11 protesters have been killed since Friday in clashes with police throughout demonstrations organised by Islamist teams in opposition to the Indian chief’s go to.
Violence has raged on since Modi’s departure as anger has swelled over the deaths. Modi arrived in Dhaka on Friday to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Bangladesh’s nationhood, and he left on Saturday after gifting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina some 1.2 million COVID-19 vaccine pictures.
Islamist teams accuse Modi of discriminating in opposition to minority Muslims in Hindu-majority India. On Friday, dozens of individuals have been injured within the densely-populated capital Dhaka as police fired tear fuel and rubber bullets at protesters. Thousands of Islamist activists marched down streets throughout Bangladesh on Sunday.
Activists with the Hefazat-e-Islam group attacked a practice within the jap district of Brahmanbaria, leading to ten individuals being injured, a police official mentioned. “They attacked the train and damaged its engine room and almost all the coaches,” the official instructed Reuters, declining to be named as he was not authorised to talk to the media.
Several authorities workplaces, together with the land workplace and a government-sponsored music academy, have been set on fireplace and a number of other Hindu temples have been additionally attacked, mentioned Javed Rahim, a journalist in Brahmanbaria city.
“We are in extreme fear and feeling really helpless,” Rahim instructed Reuters by phone, including: “Even the press club was attacked, leaving many injured, including the press club president.”One protester, who sustained an harm throughout Saturday’s conflict in Brahmanbaria, died on Sunday, a physician mentioned.
Islamist activists additionally set alight two buses within the western district of Rajshahi on Sunday, whereas tons of of protesters clashed with police in a number of locations, pelting them with stones, three police sources in three districts mentioned.Protesters used electrical poles, timber and sand baggage to dam roads and police retaliated with rubber bullets and tear fuel, leaving dozens injured in Narayanganj, simply outdoors the capital, Dhaka, one police official mentioned.
Protesters additionally vandalised and burned a number of buses in Dhaka as they blocked many roads, a police official mentioned.
The protests have flared into wider demonstrations in opposition to police killings, and the Hefazat-e-Islam enforced a nationwide strike on Sunday. “Police opened fire on our peaceful supporters,” Hefazat-e-Islam’s organising secretary Azizul Haque instructed a rally. “We will not let the blood of our brothers go in vain.”
