Panchagarh: Police in Bangladesh have arrested 130 people for allegedly attacking the Ahmadiyya community in Panchagarh region of the country last week, media reports said.

Almost 10,000 people have been accused in 10 cases involving charges of arson, murder and looting surrounding an Ahmadiyya event, reports bdnews24.

SM Sirajul Huda, district superintendent of police, told the news portal that on Tuesday that the tension in the town had simmered down and people were carrying on with their regular lives, but law enforcers were still on patrol.

On Mar 3, following the Jummah prayers, hundreds gathered in small groups and clashed with the police. They also torched and vandalised shops in protest against the Ahmadiyya event.

Arifur Rahman, 27, son of Farman Ali from the Masjid Para area, and Jahid Hasan, 23, from the Ahmadiyya community, died in the clashes. Miscreants then spread rumours about two others from the Ahmadiyya community being slain the following night, riling up locals in the process, reports bdnews24.

It led to another clash between the angry mob and the police. Two more shops were vandalised and looted and a microbus was torched.