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India Today Fact Check found that the viral video is from July 28, before Sheikh Hasina's exit. Four members of a Muslim family were found dead under mysterious circumstances in Brahmanbaria's Nabinagar in Bangladesh.
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India Today Fact Check
The July 28 video precedes Sheikh Hasina’s exit from Bangladesh and shows a Muslim family from the country’s Brahmanbaria district, found dead under mysterious circumstances.
Following former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s escape from Dhaka, there have been reports of Hindu temples being attacked in various districts of the country. Violent mobs also allegedly targeted Hindu families, the reports said. A horrific video now being shared on social media shows a man, a woman, and two young children hanged to death in a house.
An X user alleged while sharing the video: “An entire Hindu family was wiped out by Islamic jihadists in Bangladesh just because they were Hindus. Where are the eyes of the world? #SaveBangladeshiHindus.” Several Facebook and Instagram users also posted the viral video with similar claims. An archive of the post can be seen here.
India Today Fact Check found that the viral video is from July 28 and precedes Sheikh Hasina’s exit. The video also shows four members of a Muslim family found dead in Brahmanbaria’s Nabinagar in Bangladesh.
Our Probe
On reverse-searching keyframes from the viral video, we found it was shared on Facebook on July 28. The caption (originally in Bangla) said: “Four mysterious deaths of the same family in Nabinagar Brahmanbaria.”
A subsequent keyword search led us to various news reports published in Bangladesh’s English and Bangla news outlets. According to a report by The Daily Star, a family of four was found hanged to death in their house in the Nabinagar area of the Brahmanbaria district. The report mentioned that the dead were identified as Sohag Mia, 33, his wife Jannat Akhter, 25, and their two daughters aged four and two.
Reports noted that Sohag Miya was a cloth merchant in the Nabinagar market. According to Sirajul Islam, the assistant superintendent of Nabinagar Police Station, the bodies were recovered from the Bijoypara municipality area around 9 am on July 28.
According to another Bangladeshi news outlet, Sohag Miya had a loan of five lakh taka and his sister Yasmin said he was depressed. Police superintendent Mohammad Shakhawat Hossain told reporters that they suspect Sohag Miya killed his wife and two daughters and committed suicide over to a family dispute.
Tanveer, a Dhaka-based journalist, told India Today Fact Check that the family found dead was Muslim, adding that no one was arrested in this case as the police suspected it was a case of suicide. He also said there was no further update on the case because of the ongoing civil unrest in Bangladesh.
It is thus clear that the four people seen dead in the viral were not Hindus, but Muslims.
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