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A Hindu businessman was brutally killed successful Bangladesh’s Mymensingh district, days earlier the state heads to the polls, a section media study said connected Tuesday (February 10, 2026). The incidental has erstwhile again raised concerns implicit the information of minorities successful the neighbouring country.
The 62-year-old victim, Susen Chandra Sarkar, was hacked to decease wrong his store precocious connected Monday nighttime (February 9, 2026) astatine Bogar Bazar in Trishal Upazila. A nonmigratory of Southkanda village, Mr. Sarkar was the proprietor of Bhai Bhai Enterprise.
Trishal police presumption officer-in-charge Muhammad Firoz Hossain told bdnews24.com that unidentified assailants hacked Sarkar with a crisp limb wrong his shop, near his assemblage there, and pulled down the shutters earlier fleeing.
Family members, who began searching for Sarkar aft he failed to return home, opened the shop and recovered him lying successful a excavation of blood. He was rushed to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, wherever doctors declared him dead.
“We person a atom concern for a agelong time. No 1 had immoderate enmity with us. The attackers took distant respective 100 1000 taka from the store aft they brutally killed my father,” Mr. Sarkar’s son, Sujan Sarkar, said. He emanded that his father’s killers beryllium identified rapidly and fixed exemplary punishment.
The sidesplitting is the latest successful a bid of convulsive incidents affecting Bangladesh’s number communities successful caller months. Tensions person been precocious since the sidesplitting of extremist younker person Sharif Osman Hadi successful December, aft which reports of communal attacks person increased.
Last month, the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council alleged that arsenic the day of the wide elections approaches, communal unit is expanding astatine an alarming complaint successful the country, stating that it had documented 51 incidents of communal unit successful December 2025 alone.
Bangladesh is scheduled to clasp parliamentary elections connected February 12, the archetypal nationalist predetermination since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted pursuing wide protests successful August 2024.
According to the 2022 census, Hindus fig astir 13.13 cardinal successful Bangladesh, making up astir 7.95% of the country’s full population.
