All Tripura Imams' Committee said it has reports of attempts of vandalism in at least ten locations since the unrest in Bangladesh.
Anti-Muslim violence flares up in Tripura
At least seven people were killed, temples desecrated and hundreds of houses and businesses of the Hindu minority torched in Bangladesh earlier last month after rumors spread that the Quran had been insulted at a special pavilion set up for the annual Hindu religious festival of Durga Puja.
More than 10 incidents of religious violence have been reported from the North Tripura district in the past four days, according to BBC.
Soubhik Dey, a senior police official in Panisagar, was quoted by the BBC as saying that some 3,500 people had taken part in the rally. "Some VHP activists participating in the rally ransacked a mosque in the Chamtilla area. Later, three houses and three shops were ransacked and two shops were set on fire in the Rowa Bazar area, around 800 yards from the first incident," Dey said.
Police said the ransacked shops and houses belonged to Muslims. Muslims make up less than 9% of Tripura's 4.2 million population.
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