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235 held in Bangladesh over religious violence
Tuesday October 02, 2012 07:13:35 PM,
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Dhaka: Some 235 people
have been arrested in three Bangladesh districts over last week's
religious violence in which agitated mobs attacked Buddhist
temples, monasteries and homes following an alleged desecration of
the Holy Quran, police said Tuesday.
Mobs, comprising thousands of Muslims, went on the rampage in a
Buddhist-majority village - Merunloa - following the alleged
desecration of the Holy Quran by a Buddhist man of the village on
Facebook, the social networking site.
According to police, all the arrested people have been charged
with torching and damaging dozens of houses, temples and
monasteries of Buddhists and attempting to spoil communal harmony
in the districts - Cox's Bazar, Chittagong and Bandarban, Xinhua
reported.
"We've arrested a total of 169 people in connection with the
violent incidents in Cox's Bazaar," said Selim Md. Jahangir, the
district's police chief.
He said 16 Buddhist temples and monasteries were fully or
partially burnt and damaged in Ramu sub-district of Cox's Bazar
during the frenzy which started Saturday night.
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