Day before polls, two Hindu men brutally killed in Bangladesh in seperate incidents

Two Hindu men were killed successful abstracted incidents successful Bangladesh’s Moulvibazar and Mymensingh districts up of the elections connected Thursday.The International Crisis Group has warned of a "real danger" of further attacks connected candidates, arsenic good arsenic reprisals against Awami League supporters oregon Bangladesh's Hindu minority.The predetermination is Bangladesh’s archetypal since erstwhile PM Sheikh Hasina’s authorities collapsed successful 2024 aft weeks of wide protests. Hasina fled the state and her enactment is banned from the pollsIn Moulvibazar, a 28-year-old beverage worker, Ratan Shuvo Kar, was recovered dormant with his hands and feet tied successful a beverage plot successful Kamalganj upazila yesterday.The deceased was a idiosyncratic astatine Champara Tea Garden nether Islampur union, said Kamalganj Police Station Officer-in-Charge Abdul Awal, arsenic Bangladeshi paper The Daily Star reported.Locals spotted the assemblage astir 10 americium and informed police. Residents said the assemblage bore disposable wounded marks and was recovered bloodied. Some suspected that helium whitethorn person been killed elsewhere and aboriginal dumped successful the garden.Ratan’s elder brother, Laxman Kar, said the household had been searching for him since the erstwhile night. “This morning, we were informed that his assemblage was lying successful the garden. We went determination and identified him.

We bash not cognize wherefore helium was killed,” helium said.Police sent the assemblage to Moulvibazar Sadar Hospital for autopsy and said an probe is underway.In a abstracted incidental successful Mymensingh, a 62-year-old atom trader, Susen Chandra Sarkar, was brutally hacked to decease wrong his store successful Trishal upazila.According to Trishal constabulary presumption officer-in-charge Muhammad Firoz Hossain, the execution occurred astir 11pm connected Monday astatine the Bogar Bazar intersection.

Sarkar was rushed to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, wherever doctors declared him dead.Police said unidentified assailants attacked Sarkar with a crisp weapon, sidesplitting him earlier locking the store from extracurricular and fleeing the scene. Family members aboriginal recovered him lying successful a excavation of blood."After brutally sidesplitting my father, the miscreants looted respective lakhs of taka from the shop," Sarkar's son, Sujan Sarkar, told the reporters.

He besides said their household had been moving the atom concern for galore years and had nary known disputes oregon enmity with anyone.Meanwhile, the interim authorities is providing fiscal and lodging assistance to the household of Dipu Chandra Das (Dipu Das), who was beaten and burnt to decease successful Square Masterbari country of Bhaluka Upazila successful Mymensingh territory connected December 18.