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The Bangladesh Police have linked the man responsible for inciting the violence, which led to attacks on Durga puja pandals in Comilla and other places. Comilla’s Supervisor of Police Farooq Ahmed told Dhaka Tribune that the man’s name is Iqbal Hossain from Sujanagar area of the megacity.
Ahmed said the 35- time-old placed the Holy Quran at one of the Durga Puja pandals on October 13, which started the violence in which three people were killed Dhaka Tribune said in its report that the police linked Hossain after analysing videotape footages of the CCTV cameras installed at the Durga Puja venues. He has not yet been arrested In the footage, Hossain is seen taking the Quran from a original synagogue and walking into a Durga Puja venue. He was latterly seen walking down with the club of Lord Hanuman.
Ahmed said that the police will hold a briefing on Thursday where further details about Hossain will be participated.
Attacks on Hindu tabernacles have boosted in Bangladesh since last Wednesday after a post surfaced on social media showing the Quran kept at a Durga Puja pandal. Late on Sunday, a mob damaged 66 houses and set on fire at least 20 homes of Hindus.
The police said over 450 suspected tabernacle bushwhackers have been arrested so far in different corridor of the country. Forty one of them have been arrested for the Comilla incident and four of them are Hossain’s associates On Tuesday, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina instructed her home minister to initiate immediate action against those who incited violence using religion as she asked the people not to trust anything on social media without fact-checking Hindus make up some 10 per cent of the Muslim- maturity Bangladesh’s 169 million population.
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