Tension continues to grip Khagrachhari after the mob killing of Abul Hasnat Muhammad Sohel Rana, a trainer at Khagrachhari Technical College and College. In the wake of the violence, authorities have enforced an indefinite Part 144, restricting public gatherings in the district headquarters and surrounding municipal areas to reside extra clashes.
Per local sources, the recount escalated after Sohel Rana modified into lynched on Tuesday afternoon over allegations of sexually assaulting a student. What started as a disclose rapidly spiralled into violence, with reviews emerging that at the very least 20 agencies in the town’s Pankhaiyapara and Mahajanpara neighbourhoods had been vandalized and looted.
A variety of the affected retail outlets, which consist of clothes shops, beauty parlours, and meals retail outlets, are reportedly owned by contributors of the ethnic minority neighborhood. Even a non-public hospital did not walk the destruction.
The violence has deepened tensions between the hill neighborhood and Bengalis.
The Khagrachhari district stays below heavy security, with military patrols and extra police forces deployed to preserve account for. Though some prolonged-distance buses resumed carrier this morning, local roads remain largely abandoned, with most effective a handful of vehicles braving the streets.
The violence traces serve to allegations towards Sohel Rana, who had previously been jailed in 2021 following a the same accusation of raping a student. Though he modified into acquitted if that is the case, the original allegations ended in public outrage, culminating in Tuesday’s fatal attack.
