Author: PTI
Publication: The Hindu
Date: November 20, 2003
URL: http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/00120153019.htm
In a gruesome incident, at least
eleven members of a Hindu family, including a four-day-old baby and seven
women, were burnt to death by armed dacoits after they were prevented from
robbing the house in southern Chittagong in Bangladesh.
A group of 25-30 dacoits broke into
the house of Tejendra Shil at Sadanpur village in Chittagong district on
Tuesday night but the inmates prevented the bandits from breaking in, police
said.
Failing in their efforts, the dacoits
sprayed kerosene and set the house ablaze, killing eleven persons, including
70-year old Sil.
Sil's brother was the only surviving
member of the family as he managed to escape by jumping from the first
floor roof of the house.
Preliminary investigations were
on, police said, adding no one has yet been arrested.
Home Minister Altaf Hossain Chowdhury
visited the spot along with top police officials.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh's top opposition
leader Sheikh Hasina termed the incident as a "cruel manifestation of medial
inhumanity" and demanded severe punishment for those involved in the killing.
