Miscreants set fire in ISKCON temple in Dhaka, removed tin roof and sprayed petrol – ISKCON temple Miscreants set fire in Dhaka removed tin roof and sprayed petrol Attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh ntc
Hindus are being continuously targeted in Bangladesh. Miscreants set fire to the ISKCON temple in Dhaka on Saturday morning. ISKCON Bangladesh said it was the family temple of an ISKCON devotee, while the organisation’s Kolkata office said the ‘ISKCON Namhatta Centre’ was targeted. The attack took place on Saturday morning in Dhaur village under Turag police station of Dhaka district. An official of Turag police station said that a search operation has been launched to trace the criminals.
According to Charu Chandra Das Brahmachari, general secretary of Bangladesh’s International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), the temple caught fire after the tin roof was lifted. He said the fire was quickly extinguished, but a statue was damaged and curtains were burnt.
According to PTI, Radharaman Das, vice-president of ISKCON Kolkata in India, said that “vandals set fire to the temple in Namhatta property. ISKCON Namhatta center in Bangladesh was burnt.
Das said in a post on Hare Krishna comes under Namhatta Sangha. He said in the post that the tin roof behind the temple was lifted and set on fire using petrol or octane.