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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Rab personnel early Thursday recovered a bronze statue of Lord Buddha from Ramu upazila of Cox's Bazar which was looted during the September 29 midnight attack on Buddhists in the upazila.
It is the first case of recovering looted Buddha statue after the violent attack on the minority community in Ramu, Ukhia, and Teknaf of Cox's Bazar and Patiya in Chittagong, reports our Cox's Bazar correspondent.
None was arrested in connection with the recovery.
On the night of September 29, a mob destroyed 18 Buddhist temples and monasteries and more than 50 houses in Ramu. The violence was apparently triggered by a Facebook posting of a photo defaming the holy Quran.
Several hundreds of Buddha statues were looted from different temples and monasteries during the mayhem.
Md Zahir Uddin, deputy assistant director of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Cox's Bazar office, said they found the statue weighing 565 grams lying abandoned at Ramu-Naikhongchhari road in Zaruliachhari area, eight kilometers off Ramu Sadar upazila and two km off Naikhongchhari upazila in Bandarban.
As part of a drive to recover the looted statues and arrest the culprits involved in the violence, they conducted the raid and found the statue around 4:00am, the Rab official said.
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