5 murdered, houses set on fire... Incidents of violence against people of Hindu minority community in Bangladesh

Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, 7 members of the Hindu community have been killed since December. However, the council did not provide details about the two victims.

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Dipu Chandra Das The first thing to do was to brutally murder a 25-year-old minority Hindu man Dipu Chandra Das on December 18, 2025, in Baluka in Mymensingh district of Bangladesh. Dipu Chandra Das, an employee of a garment factory, was beaten to death by a fundamentalist mob on charges of alleged blasphemy. Later, his body was hung from a tree and set on fire. However, at least 12 people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in Das's murder

Amrit Mandal: In Bangladesh, on December 24, 2025, Amrit Mandal was beaten to death on charges of extortion in Pangsha sub-district of Rajbari town. This was the second incident of murder of a Hindu man in Bangladesh.

Khokan Chandra Das: At the same time, the murder of 50-year-old Hindu businessman Khokan Chandra Das was the third incident with a Bangladeshi Hindu, which was carried out by a mob of fundamentalists on the night of December 31, 2025. Khokan Chandra Das, a Hindu businessman, was returning home after closing his shop on the night of December 31. Meanwhile, the miscreants attacked them with sharp weapons and then set them on fire. Das, who ran a chemist shop and mobile banking, died at the hospital on January 3, three days after the incident

Rana Pratap Bairagi: In this episode, Rana Pratap Bairagi, 38, the owner of an ice-making factory in Bangladesh and the acting editor of the daily BD Khabar newspaper published from Narail, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Jessore district of southern Bangladesh on January 5, 2026.

Moni Chakraborty At the same time, the fifth person of the Hindu community in Bangladesh was murdered on January 5, 2026. A 40-year-old grocery store owner was hacked to death by unidentified assailants with a sharp weapon in Charsindur market of Palash upazila of the country

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