House owned by Hindu family torched in Bangladesh's Pirojpur as tensions flare up

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As targeted acts of violence against minorities continue in Bangladesh, a house owned by a Hindu family  was completely gutted in a devastating fire in Paschim Dumritola village under Pirojpur Sadar Upazila in southern Bangladesh.

The alarming violence in the past few days was triggered following youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi’s death earlier this month and the shifting political environment in the country.

According to various media reports, unidentified miscreants set fire to several rooms at the Saha residence in Dumritola on December 27 in a targeted attack on minorities.

#BreakingNews Cases of attacks on Hindus have reached an alarming level in Bangladesh. On December 27 at 6am, miscreants set fire at homes of Kanti Saha Dumuria village under Pirojpur district. pic.twitter.com/M4s7ROHBSs

— Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury (@salah_shoaib) December 28, 2025

The suspects allegedly inserted a cloth inside one of the rooms and set it on fire, and the blaze quickly spread throughout the house, according to a report by News18.

The house belonged to members of the Saha family---Palash Kanti Saha, Shib Saha, Dipak Saha, Shyamalendu Saha, and Ashok Saha. According to the affected families, the blaze destroyed all household belongings, including furniture, cash, land documents, educational certificates, and other important papers.

Taking to X, Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen wrote, “In Dumritola village of Pirojpur, five rooms of the Saha family’s house were burned down by Hindu-hating jihadis. They set the house on fire in the early hours of the morning, when everyone was asleep."

“In Raozan, Chattogram, jihadis had set fire to Hindu homes in the same way, at dawn. Will all the remaining Hindu homes in the country be burned like this? They want to burn Hindus alive; that is why they set fires when people are asleep. Is Yunus just playing the flute?" she added.

Last week, a Hindu-owned house near the southeastern port city of Chattogram was set on fire by unidentified attackers. Family members said they were jolted awake by the heat from the blaze in the early morning hours, but were initially trapped inside as the doors had been locked from the outside. All eight members of the two families managed to flee by cutting through tin sheets and bamboo fencing, but their household belongings were lost and their pets were killed.

Bangladesh turmoil

Bangladesh witnessed a nationwide turmoil after student leader Osman Hadi, a prominent critic of India, was shot in the head by unidentified gunmen on December 12. He was flown to Singapore for treatment, where he succumbed to his injuries.

Thousands of supporters took to the streets and vandalised media houses like The Daily Star and Prothom Alo. A mob brutally lynched a young Hindu factory worker Dipu Chandra Das and set his body on fire in Mymensingh over blasphemy allegations, triggering widespread protests across the world.

Another Hindu man, identified as Amrit Mondal, was killed by a mob on Wednesday over an extortion allegation. Yunus’ office on Tuesday said “allegations, rumours or differences of belief can never excuse violence, and no individual has the right to take the law into their own hands".