10 harmed in conflict on Iskcon church in Bangladesh

Sylhet (Bangladesh): A strife between Hindu worshippers during an Iskcon church and Muslim devotees from a circuitously mosque in Sylhet, a vital city in northeastern Bangladesh, allegedly over a land brawl left during slightest 10 people injured, media reports said.

Those harmed embody former sentinel councillor Jebunnahar Shirin and International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) church worker Rajendra Keshob Das in a strife on Friday.

Sylhet Metropolitan Police Additional Commissioner S.M. Rokan Uddin told Dhaka Tribune a strife took place after Friday prayers when Muslim devotees went to a church to confront a authorities there for not interlude a religious songs that were being played during a temple.

“Muslim devotees went to a church before a Jumma prayers and had requested a church authorities to stop a religious songs while a prayers are held. However, when a songs were not stopped, a devotees went there again and sealed in an altercation,” Rokan Uddin claimed, a Dhaka Tribue reported.

At one point, both groups started hurling bricks during one another withdrawal 10 people injured, he added.

However, Iskcon Principal Navadwipa Dwija Gauranga Das Brahmachari says a strife took place due to a brawl over land.

“Using microphones in a circuitously mosque during a Jumma prayer, locals who had allegedly grabbed a land skill of Iskcon instigated a Muslim devotees to attack,” Gauranga Das told Daily Star.

“We were pounded and we wish probity for this. Until probity is done, we will keep protesting,” Brahmachari pronounced adding that a church authorities were deliberation filing a box in a matter.

Police rushed to a symbol and dismissed 15 teargas shells and rubber bullets to move a conditions underneath control, withdrawal 6 pedestrians injured.

Additional policemen were deployed to equivocate any serve neglected incident.

The conflict on a Hindu church comes comes after a comparison Hindu clergyman Jogeswar Roy, 45, was decapitated in his church in northern Bangladesh in Feb this year.

December final year saw 10 persons harmed when unclear assailants hurled 3 wanton bombs inside a premises of a church in northern Bangladesh where over 5,000 people had collected for a uncover to symbol a Hindu festival.

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