{"id":237705,"date":"2024-08-09T13:40:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T08:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=237705"},"modified":"2024-08-09T13:40:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T08:10:24","slug":"fire-in-a-hotel-in-bangladesh-viral-as-hindu-temple-was-set-on-fire-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/fire-in-a-hotel-in-bangladesh-viral-as-hindu-temple-was-set-on-fire-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh: Zee, News 24 ran visuals of restaurant up in flames in Satkhira as Hindu temple burnt down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Bangladesh was plunged into an unprecedented crisis with erstwhile Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina&#8217;s ouster on August 5, incidents of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prothomalo.com\/bangladesh\/district\/amh52jc85n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attacks on minority Hindus<\/a> have been reported from several parts of the country. An interim government led by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus as its chief adviser was <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/world\/muhammad-yunus-sworn-in-as-chief-advisor-bangladesh-interim-government-live-9503180\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sworn in on August 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">X handle Visegr\u00e1d 24 tweeted a video on August 6 of a building on fire and described it as a Hindu temple. (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/nEFFH\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Archived link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING:<\/p>\n<p>The ethnic violence continues in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>Islamist have set a Hindu business on fire <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RsJXRET74s\">pic.twitter.com\/RsJXRET74s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Visegr\u00e1d 24 (@visegrad24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visegrad24\/status\/1820800517481640393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zee News Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh, too, described the viral video as a Hindu temple set on fire. (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ghostarchive.org\/archive\/aLAWr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Archived link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/hindi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-07-203816.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">News24 also described the building seen in the viral video as a Hindu temple in one of its reports. (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Lm2hG\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Archived link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/hindi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-07-204728.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apart from this, a number of users including <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/NHfjb\">Sunanda Roy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/oDcxW\">Hindu Voice<\/a>, Random Sena amplified the video and claimed that Islamic fundamentalists had set fire to a Hindu temple.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-237705 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/fire-in-a-hotel-in-bangladesh-viral-as-hindu-temple-was-set-on-fire-by\/screenshot-2024-08-07-182426-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"1068\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-07-182426-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-07-182426-1.jpg 890w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-07-182426-1-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-07-182426-1-853x1024.jpg 853w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-07-182426-1-768x922.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/fire-in-a-hotel-in-bangladesh-viral-as-hindu-temple-was-set-on-fire-by\/screenshot-2024-08-07-182452-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"888\" height=\"916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-07-182452-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-07-182452-1.jpg 888w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-07-182452-1-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-07-182452-1-768x792.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 888px) 100vw, 888px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/fire-in-a-hotel-in-bangladesh-viral-as-hindu-temple-was-set-on-fire-by\/gus6w_paiaa8uq\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"970\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/08\/GUS6W_PaIAA8uq-.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/08\/GUS6W_PaIAA8uq-.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/08\/GUS6W_PaIAA8uq--223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4><b>Fact Check<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We found a tweet by Bangladeshi fact-checker Shohanur Rahman in which he replied to a user stating that the building seen in the viral video was not a Hindu temple but a restaurant in Satkhira, Bangladesh. Along with this, he also attached two screenshots which depicted a sign reading <\/span><b>\u2018<\/b><b>\u09b0\u09be\u099c \u09aa\u09cd\u09b0\u09be\u09b8\u09be\u09a6 \u0995\u09ab\u09bf \u09b6\u09aa \u098f\u09a8\u09cd\u09a1 \u09b0\u09c7\u09b8\u09cd\u099f\u09c1\u09b0\u09c7\u09a8\u09cd\u099f \u0995\u09b2\u09be\u09b0\u09cb\u09af\u09bc\u09be \u09b8\u09be\u09a4\u0995\u09cd\u09b7\u09c0\u09b0\u09be<\/b><b>\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Raj Prasad Coffee Shop &amp; Restaurant Kalaroa Satkhira).<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fake Alert\u274c<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a temple, it&#8217;s actually a restaurant in Satkhira. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wmfYZ0fknO\">pic.twitter.com\/wmfYZ0fknO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shohanur Rahman (@Sohan_RSB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sohan_RSB\/status\/1820783116212162834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We then performed a keyword search in Bangla on Facebook. This led us to more information related to this on a Facebook page named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0sN1ZWab8EUT7yXzKo69L7R163g6H44a7vNhZEAezAEyrHzqu1i1PDnRGqkDaYVY3l&amp;id=100083596467885&amp;__cft__[0]=AZXicic9cmcUvEcsBsQ1zRNNclVt628LttI8xarbxcThos_xbYmbYhI0ilh-3l4pEfbOFnvdHgJQLztW0glN4Bl2mfWKvXt5ZLBn4UQcHsQeXjmCz2a1v4xzP0XDeiNdqodEujwxu2e7T65HC0pmOKNwU53ZGNYdd400iRlX5kMKbus9hDm9AjJPm7kEmDhyyOFFeg3aNe2hCmZmJexzBQKU&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\">Kalaroa Speech<\/a>. The page completely denied the viral claim of the burning building being a Hindu temple and clarified that it was not a temple that was ablaze, but a restaurant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/hindi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-07-185625.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When we searched about this restaurant on Google, we found a picture of it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/local\/place\/fid\/0x39ff430025ca1e5b:0x2f7893d4f9a0eedf\/photosphere?iu=https:\/\/streetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com\/v1\/thumbnail?panoid%3Do8-5CjbNEbU0Vv6UZ3f8Vw%26cb_client%3Dlu.gallery.gps%26w%3D160%26h%3D106%26yaw%3D276.53116%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100&amp;ik=CAISFm84LTVDamJORWJVMFZ2NlVaM2Y4Vnc%3D\">Google Maps<\/a>, as seen in the visual below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/hindi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-07-165849-min-scaled.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When we performed another keyword search using terms related to this restaurant on YouTube, we found several different vlogs depicting the restaurant. In other words, the building that caught fire in the viral video was not a temple, but a restaurant.<\/span><\/p>\n<iframe style=\"width:100%; height:auto; aspect-ratio:16\/9;\" title=\"\u09b0\u09be\u099c \u09aa\u09cd\u09b0\u09be\u09b8\u09be\u09a6 \u0995\u09ab\u09bf \u09b6\u09aa \u098f\u09a8\u09cd\u09a1 \u09b0\u09c7\u09b8\u09cd\u099f\u09c1\u09b0\u09c7\u09a8\u09cd\u099f  \u0995\u09b2\u09be\u09b0\u09cb\u09af\u09bc\u09be \u09b8\u09be\u09a4\u0995\u09cd\u09b7\u09c0\u09b0\u09be  \u2764\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V57Guzv5WeU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>We also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajkerpatrika.com\/349778\/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A5%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%96%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%98%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%9C%E0%A6%BF%E2%80%93%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E2%80%93%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> that the restaurant was owned by Kazi Asadujjaman Shahzada, a leader of the Jubo League, the youth wing of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To sum it up, multiple social media users shared a video of a restaurant set ablaze in Bangladesh and falsely claimed that it was a Hindu temple. This unverified story was also promoted by news outlets like News24 and Zee News Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Bangladesh was plunged into an unprecedented crisis with erstwhile Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina&#8217;s ouster on August 5, incidents of attacks on minority Hindus have been reported from several parts of the country. An interim government led by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus as its chief adviser was sworn in on August 8. 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