A 62-year-old Hindu trader, Susen Chandra Sarkar, was reportedly hacked to death by unidentified men inside his shop in Trishal sub-district of Mymensingh in Bangladesh.
Trishal police station chief Muhammad Firoz Hossain said the incident took place on Monday night at the Bogar Bazar intersection in the sub-district. Susen Chandra Sarkar was the owner of “Bhai Bhai Enterprise” and a resident of Southkanda village.
Hossain said the attackers hacked Sarkar with a sharp weapon, left him inside the shop and closed the shutters. Sarkar’s family was searching for him, and when they opened the shutters of the shop, he was found lying in a pool of blood. Sarkar was rushed to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.
“We have had a rice business for a long time. No one had any enmity with us. The criminals stole several hundred thousand takas from the store after they brutally killed my father,” Sujan Sarkar, the victim’s son, said. He demanded that his father’s killers be identified quickly and brought to task. Sarkar’s murder is the latest in a series of incidents of violence targeting the minority Hindu community.
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