Air, land ports alerted for Nasirnagar attackers

Police have alerted all the airports and land ports so that those involved in the attacks on the Hindus in Brahmanbaria cannot leave the country.

“Letters have been sent to different ports asking them to remain alert so that the culprits can't flee the country,” Assistant Inspector General (Confidential) of the Police Headquarters Moniruzzaman said yesterday.

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The alert was issued following a request from the Brahmanbaria district police.

M Mizanur Rahman, superintendent of police in Brahmanbaria, also wrote to the commanding officer of the Border Guard Bangladesh battalion-12 stationed in the district, requesting him to take steps so that the culprits could not cross the border, said Additional Superintendent of Police Iqbal Hossain.

On October 30, a group of religious zealots carried out attacks on the Hindus in Nasirnagar, vandalising around 100 homes and temples and looting cash and other valuables.

The two-hour mayhem was unleashed over a Facebook post from the account of a local fisherman, “hurting the religious sentiment” of Muslims.

Unidentified criminals set fire to at least six more houses of Hindus at different villages in Nasirnagar upazila on November 5 and torched another Hindu house at Changapur village in the same upazila on November 13.