Temple set on fire in Netrakona, one detained

A Hindu temple was torched partially at Satpai in Netrakona early Saturday. Police detained one Sumon Islam in connection with the incident. Sadar police officer-in-charge Abu Taher Dewan said fire was burnt at Ekata Sangha Kali Mandir and they detained the person for interrogation. The fresh incident took place amid a religious tension at Nasirnagar in Brahmanbaria where a good number of houses, business establishments and temples as well were damaged and robbed in attacks on Hindus on October 30. Unidentified miscreants set fire to the five houses of Hindus at places of Nasirnagar early Friday. Nasirnagar police sub-inspector Mohiuddin Ahmed told New Age that unknown miscreants also set fire to a stack of straw at a Hindu house at village Chatipara in Nasirnagar Friday evening.