The 62-year-old sufferer, Susen Chandra Sarkar, was hacked to dying inside his store late on Monday night time at Bogar Bazar in Trishal Upazila in Bangladesh’s Mymensingh district. Consultant picture
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A Hindu businessman was brutally killed in Bangladesh’s Mymensingh district, days earlier than the nation heads to the polls, an area media report stated on Tuesday (February 10, 2026). The incident has as soon as once more raised issues over the security of minorities within the neighbouring nation.
The 62-year-old sufferer, Susen Chandra Sarkar, was hacked to dying inside his store late on Monday night time (February 9, 2026) at Bogar Bazar in Trishal Upazila. A resident of Southkanda village, Mr. Sarkar was the proprietor of Bhai Bhai Enterprise.
Trishal police station officer-in-charge Muhammad Firoz Hossain advised bdnews24.com that unidentified assailants hacked Sarkar with a pointy weapon inside his store, left his physique there, and pulled down the shutters earlier than fleeing.
Members of the family, who started trying to find Sarkar after he didn’t return dwelling, opened the store and located him mendacity in a pool of blood. He was rushed to Mymensingh Medical School Hospital, the place docs declared him useless.
“Now we have a rice enterprise for a very long time. Nobody had any enmity with us. The attackers took away a number of hundred thousand taka from the shop after they brutally killed my father,” Mr. Sarkar’s son, Sujan Sarkar, stated. He emanded that his father’s killers be recognized rapidly and given exemplary punishment.
The killing is the most recent in a collection of violent incidents affecting Bangladesh’s minority communities in current months. Tensions have been excessive for the reason that killing of radical youth chief Sharif Osman Hadi in December, after which stories of communal assaults have elevated.
Final month, the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council alleged that because the date of the overall elections approaches, communal violence is rising at an alarming fee within the nation, stating that it had documented 51 incidents of communal violence in December 2025 alone.
Bangladesh is scheduled to carry parliamentary elections on February 12, the primary nationwide election since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted following mass protests in August 2024.
Based on the 2022 census, Hindus quantity round 13.13 million in Bangladesh, making up roughly 7.95% of the nation’s whole inhabitants.
Revealed – February 10, 2026 07:14 pm IST