Houses of Hindus attacked

Criminals ransacked and set fire to two houses of Hindus in Kaharol upazila yesterday afternoon, leaving four people injured. The injured were identified as Ratan Kumar Roy, 30, and Laxmi Kanti Roy, 28, sons of Atul Chandra Roy and their wives Bharoti Rani Roy, 28, and Parul Rani Roy, 25, of village Mutunihat under the upazila. According to the locals, there was a longstanding land dispute between Atul Chandra Roy, a retired village police and Abdul Wahab and Abdul Latif. At about 2.00pm yesterday, around 20 to 25 people, equipped with wooden sticks and sharp weapons, arrived on a three-wheeler and started ransacking Atul's houses. The gang also looted goods around Tk 50,000 and beat up two sons of Atul and two daughters-in-law. Later they set two houses and a shop belonging to Atul on fire and left the area. Sukumar Mohanta, officer in-charge of Kaharol PS visited the spot.