Hindu businessman stabbed to death in Bangladesh, two days before general election | World News

On Monday, a Hindu businessman was killed in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, just two days before the country’s general elections scheduled to be held on February 12.

The victim, 62-year-old Susen Chandra Sarkar, a rice trader, was brutally hacked to death inside her shop.

According to Bdnews24, Trishal Police Station chief Muhammad Firoz Hossain said that the attackers then closed the shutters of the shop and fled the scene.

According to local police, the incident took place around 23:00 in Trishal area of ​​Mymensingh.

According to local police, the incident took place at 11 pm in Trishal, Mymensingh.

Sarkar, a resident of Southkanda village, ran a shop named “Bhai Bhai Enterprise” at Bogar Bazar junction.

According to Mohammed Firoz’s statement, the unidentified assailants attacked Sarkar with sharp weapons, left him inside the shop and closed the shutters.

Firoz told bdnews24 that his family was looking for him and found him covered in blood when they opened the shutters of the shop.

Sarkar’s family immediately took him to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Police said the body will be sent for autopsy and legal action has been initiated. Police Chief Muhammed Firoz also stated that he visited the scene after the incident.

Sujan Sarkar, the victim’s son, stated that the attackers took money from the shop and added that his father had no enmity with anyone in the area.

“We have been trading rice for a long time. Nobody had any enmity towards us. The criminals stole several hundred thousand taka from the store after brutally killing my father,” Bdnews 24 quoted Sujan as saying.

This incident occurred amid a series of attacks on minorities in Bangladesh. In December last year, Dipu Chandra Das, a textile worker in Mymensingh, was beaten and set on fire by a mob in Bhaluka for alleged blasphemy.

Earlier, in January, 38-year-old Hindu businessman and deputy newspaper editor Rana Pratap Bairagi was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Jessore district.

A day after Bairagi’s death, another Hindu man, who owned a grocery shop in Narsingdi on the outskirts of Dhaka, was allegedly killed following an attack with sharp weapons.

Following these incidents, India called on Bangladesh to respond “swiftly and decisively” to attacks on minorities.

“Such communal incidents need to be dealt with swiftly and decisively. We have observed a disturbing trend of attributing such incidents to personal rivalries, political differences or external causes,” said Randhir Jaiswal, spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs.