The communal tensions came as the minority Hindus, who constitute 9 per cent of Bangladesh's 160 million population, celebrated their largest religious festival Durga Puja last week. The attacks included vandalism of and setting fire to 559 houses and 442 shops and businesses of the Hindu community, it said. While 11 citizens from the Hindu community have died in these incidents, another 862 were injured, the report said. They will be hunted down and punished," she said while exchanging greetings with the Hindu community members during an event at Dhakeshwari National Temple in Dhaka on the occasion of Durga Puja. The Durga Puja celebrations, considered to be the biggest festival of the minority Hindu community in Bangladesh, concluded without the traditional Bijoya Dashami procession.

Source: bd News24 October 30, 2021 08:37 UTC