Dhaka: Hundreds of people protested the capital of Bangladesh Dhaka on Monday called for the expiration of religious violence that had gripped the country for four days, causing at least two deaths and some injured.
Violence began on October 15, when hundreds of Muslims protested in Southeast Noeakhali Regency on an incident suspected of blasphemy.
Two Hindu men died after the protest, Mohammed Shahidul Islam, police chief in Noakhali, told Reuters by telephone.
“There is some confusion about whether they die because of assembly that violated the law, or vice versa,” Islam said, adding that the police were investigating death.
“They (protesters) are criminals, actually, that’s all we can say.” Islam refused to share further details.
Some Hindu religious sites have been attacked in the last few days, which the Minister of Internal Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan was an attack intended to destroy communal harmony in Bangladesh.
Hindus redeemed about 10% of the population of Muslim majority.
“There are no incidents that have been reported since Saturday night.
Our security forces work patiently on intelligence information,” Khan told the Ani news agency.
“Nakreak” unknown to attack several houses in Rangpur City on Monday, the police told the agency.
Riots are some of the worst in Bangladesh since the Prime Minister Sheikh League Party Hasina has ruled there in 2009.
This creates a challenge for his party, which is seen as one of the two more interconnected political groups in Bangladesh for most of its independent history.
Some of them gathered to protest near Dhaka University in the capital on Monday lifted a banner demanding that the police identified the attackers and took them to court.
“Minority security in the country must be ascertained,” one of the reading banners.