A mob of slogan-shouting rioters vandalised three Hindu temples after Friday prayers in Chittagong, Bangladesh

 A mob of slogan-shouting rioters vandalised three Hindu temples after Friday prayers in Chittagong, Bangladesh

A mob of slogan-shouting rioters vandalised three Hindu temples in Bangladesh's Chittagong after Friday prayers. 

A mob of slogan-shouting rioters vandalised three Hindu temples in Bangladesh's Chittagong after Friday prayers. 

Chittagong has witnessed protests and violence since a case was registered against former ISKCON member and Hindu saint Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari under charges of sedition and he was arrested. 

According to a local news portal, the Hindu temples located in Chittagong's Harish Chandra Munsef Lane were attacked around 2:30 pm on Friday.

The mob of miscreants targeted Shantaneshwari Matru Mandir, Shoni Mandir and Shantaneshwari Kalibari Mandir. Temple officials said that a group of several hundred sloganeering people threw bricks and stones at the temples, damaging the gates of Shoni Mandir and two other temples. 

Kotwali police station chief Abdul Karim confirmed the attack and said that the attackers tried to damage the temples. However, the police said that there was not much damage to the temples in the clash between the two sides. Both the groups threw bricks and stones at each other.
Tapan Das, a member of the Shantineshwari Temple Management Committee, told local media, 'After Friday prayers, a procession of hundreds of people came. 

They started raising anti-Hindu and anti-ISKCON slogans. We did not stop the attackers. When the situation worsened, we called the army, which arrived immediately and helped restore order. Before noon, all the temple doors were closed. 

The miscreants arrived without any provocation and attacked.' Spiritual leader Chinmay Krishna Das, a former member of Bangladesh's International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), was arrested on November 25 in a sedition case. He was denied bail by a Chittagong court.