Hindu houses set on fire in Rangpur following Facebook post

A mob set fire to a number of houses of the Hindus at a remote village of Pirganj upazila in Rangpur Sunday night following a Facebook post allegedly by a Hindu youth defaming Kaaba. Officials said that police members were deployed at the village of fishing people in the evening as the Facebook post went viral. Later in the late evening, the mob set fire to the houses at the village, they said.