Hindus Attacked in Bangladesh; Cong Urges Govt to Take Up Issue

Bangladeshi media report that the Hindu community had been attacked in response to a Facebook post.

After media reports began circulating over the minority Hindu community being targeted in Bangladesh, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury urged the Centre to immediately take up the issue with the Bangladeshi government.

Over the last few days, reports have emerged that there had been attacks on houses of the Hindu community in Muradnagar, Cumilla, including in BBC Bangla and bdnews24.

The violence is supposed to have started after a headmaster of a kindergarten school commented favourably on a Facebook post by a Bangladeshi man in France, which praised French President Emmanuel Macron for his reaction to the beheading of a school teacher in Paris.