CHT Affairs Adviser to visit Lama arson attack victims

CHT Affairs Adviser Supradip Chakma is flying to the Bandarban Hill District on Thursday afternoon to visit the members of the Tripura Christian community affected by Tuesday's arson attack. 

Deputy Commissioner of Bandarban district, Shah Mujahid Uddin, and Bandarban Superintendent of Police Shahidullah Kawser already visited the 19 families whose makeshift homes were torched in the attack.

The district authorities have provided immediate food and relief materials to the families, said a statement issued by the chief adviser's press wing. 

District authorities have said the affected families have permanent homes in a nearby village in Lama, and the torched homes were their makeshift "Tong" homes.

Police said an FIR has been filed over the arson incident.

A Tripura community elder who filed the FIR has accused six rival Tripura Christian community members and a Bengali Muslim over the incident.

Police have arrested four people over the incident. 

Preliminary police investigations have found that the arson could be linked to a long-running rivalry between two groups of Tripura community members.

Police are seriously probing the incident and have stepped up efforts to arrest the culprits. 

The government has asked police to unearth the motive behind the attack at the earliest possible time.