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A 28-second video is viral on social media which shows distressing footage of four dead bodies in a room, including those of two children. All the bodies have nooses around their neck and two of them are still hanging. Against the backdrop of the unprecedented crisis in Bangladesh, where several reports of attacks against minorities have surfaced, this video is being shared with the claim that Islamic extremists murdered the Hindu family in an act of religious hate crime.
X-verified user Salwan Momika (@Salwan_Momika1) posted this viral video with the claim that ‘Islamic jihadists’ in Bangladesh had killed the Hindu family. He also added a hashtag with the phrase ‘Save Bangladeshi Hindus’. (Archive)
He further urged the Indian government to intervene and save Hindus from ‘genocide’ by Muslims in Bangladesh. At the time of this article being written, the post has managed to gather around 8.8 Lakh views, and more than 12,000 re-shares.
X user @Sharabh_Vishnu_ also posted the viral clip, along with the claim that the Hindu family had been murdered by Islamic extremists. (Archive)
Such claims are also viral on Facebook, with various users alleging that four members of a Hindu family had been killed by Muslims in Bangladesh.
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Fact Check
We ran a relevant Bengali keyword search on Google, which led us to a news article by Bangladeshi daily Dainik Ittefak dated July 28, 2024. The report states that all four members of a family had died by hanging at Bijoypara in the Nabinagar upazila of Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh. It adds that the hanged bodies were discovered by neighbours, who reported it to the police, around 10:30 am on July 28. The deceased were identified as Sohag Miya, Jannatul Begum, and their two children, Fariya and Fahima.
Another news article reports that neighbours speculated that it was a case of suicide, since Sohag Miya, a small businessman, had possibly run into heavy debts. However, a report in Bengali daily Kaaler Kantho quotes local police officer Mohammad Sakhawat as saying that circumstantial evidence and the way the bodies were found suggested that Sohag might have killed his wife and children over a family dispute and then committed suicide.
We ran a relevant keyword search on YouTube, and came across this video from July 28, which reports on the same incident of the four hanged members of the same family in Bangladesh.
None of the reports mentioned a communal angle to the alleged crime.
To sum up, the viral footage is from an incident in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh from July 28 in which four members of a Muslim family were found dead in their house. The video is being shared with the false claim that a Hindu family was murdered by Muslims in Bangladesh.
Prantik Ali is an intern at Alt News.
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