A witness said the body of cleric Nurul Haque Molla was disinterred and set on fire after hardline Islamists stormed his shrine in Rajbari
Bangladesh police said on Saturday they had launched a manhunt after hundreds of hardline Islamists desecrated the grave of a controversial cleric in an attack in which one person was killed.
Dozens of shrines have been attacked since the dramatic fall of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina in August last year as hardliners gain ground in Muslim-majority Bangladesh.
However, Friday’s attack in central Bangladesh was a rare case of a grave being dug up and a body desecrated. A witness said the body of cleric Nurul Haque Molla was disinterred and set on fire.
“We have started identifying the perpetrators, and none will be spared,” said Rajbari district police superintendent Md Kamrul Islam.
