Several Hindu-Owned Houses Torched In Bangladesh As Mob Violence Escalates Amid Turmoil

Last Updated:December 29, 2025, 09:25 IST

Homes belonging to seven Hindu families were torched in Chattogram within five days as part of a broader attack on religious minorities in Bangladesh.

Unidentified attackers torched a Hindu-owned home in Bangladesh's Pirojpur district. (X/@taslimanasreen)

Several Hindu houses were torched in Bangladesh’s Pirojpur district as mob violence reached alarming violence in the wake of nationwide unrest that followed youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi’s death earlier this month and the shifting political environment in the country.

According to various reports, miscreants set fire to several houses belonging to Hindu homes in the Saha residence located in the Dumritola village of Pirojpur on December 27 in a targeted attack on minorities.

Taking to X, Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen wrote, “In Dumritola village of Pirojpur, five rooms of the Saha family’s house were burned down by Hindu-hating jihadis. They set the house on fire in the early hours of the morning, when everyone was asleep."

“In Raozan, Chattogram, jihadis had set fire to Hindu homes in the same way, at dawn. Will all the remaining Hindu homes in the country be burned like this? They want to burn Hindus alive; that is why they set fires when people are asleep. Is Yunus just playing the flute?" she added.

This comes after a Hindu-owned house near the southeastern port city of Chattogram was set on fire by unidentified attackers last week. Family members said they were jolted awake by the heat from the blaze in the early morning hours, but were initially trapped inside as the doors had been locked from the outside.

All eight members of the two families managed to flee by cutting through tin sheets and bamboo fencing, but their household belongings were lost and their pets were killed. Police said five suspects have been arrested during raids, while efforts were ongoing to track down the remaining accused.

According to The Daily Star, homes belonging to seven Hindu families were set ablaze across three locations in Raojan within five days as part of a broader pattern of arson in the area. The police held a meeting with local influential people to ensure interfaith harmony and social vigilance against perpetrators of such “heinous crimes".

Bangladesh witnessed a nationwide turmoil after student leader Osman Hadi, a prominent critic of India, was shot in the head by unidentified gunmen on December 12. He was flown to Singapore for treatment, where he succumbed to his injuries.

Thousands of supporters took to the streets and vandalised media houses like The Daily Star and Prothom Alo. A mob brutally lynched a young Hindu factory worker Dipu Chandra Das and set his body on fire in Mymensingh over blasphemy allegations, triggering widespread protests across the world.

Another Hindu man, identified as Amrit Mondal, was killed by a mob on Wednesday over an extortion allegation. Yunus’ office on Tuesday said “allegations, rumours or differences of belief can never excuse violence, and no individual has the right to take the law into their own hands".

The New York Times, in an analysis in August 2025, said the ouster of prime minister Sheikh Hasina in a student-led violent movement dubbed July Uprising resulted in a “political vacuum" causing the emergence of radical rightwing forces in the social arena. The Guardian of the UK on Wednesday ran an analysis titled “How hope is fading: the mobs bringing violence back to the streets of Bangladesh".

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