Trigger Warning: Graphic Visuals A video showing a man's still, lifeless body in a pool of water in the midst of a field is viral on social media. A group of people surrounding the body can be heard saying that his hands were tied. Users on social … Read on blog or Reader Alt News Read on blog or Reader Muslim rickshaw driver's body found in Bangladesh river; Footage falsely viral as Hindu student's murder By Prantik Ali on 3rd February 2025 Trigger Warning: Graphic Visuals A video showing a man's still, lifeless body in a pool of water in the midst of a field is viral on social media. A group of people surrounding the body can be heard saying that his hands were tied. Users on social media circulating this video have claimed that the deceased was a Hindu man named Sumon living in Bangladesh to insinuate that it was a case of persecution of Hindu minorities in Bangladesh. X user @pakistan_untold shared the video alleging that the Yunus Mohammed-led Bangladesh government had opened the "floodgates of Hindu persecution". At the time of this article being written, the post had over 10,000 views and has been reshared almost 900 times. (Archive) Bangladeshi Hindu boy Sumon mu₹dered & his body dumped in river in Islamic Bangladesh. Regime change in Bangladesh has opened floodgates of Hindu persecution. VC: @avroneel80pic.twitter.com/UgVQ1a2k0a — Pakistan Untold (@pakistan_untold) January 30, 2025 Aanother X user @avroneel80 shared a similar video alleging that student league leader Sumon was targeted and killed by "terrorists". (Archive) Chhatra League leader Sumon was brutally killed by terrorists. The terrorists left the bodies under the bridge in Langalbanda Brahmaputra river. pic.twitter.com/m6TIcnIMmx — Avro Neel Hindu🕉️🇧🇩 (@avroneel80) January 29, 2025 Verified X user @MithilaWaala also shared the video claiming he was killed by Islamists in Bangladesh. (Archive) 🚨SHOCKING Hindu Student Union leader Sumon has been brutally k!lled and his body dumped under the bridge in Langalbanda Brahmaputra river by i&lamists in Bangladesh. #HinduGenocideInBangladesh #SaveBangladeshiHindus pic.twitter.com/I2rr3CyOpG — Amitabh Chaudhary (@MithilaWaala) January 31, 2025 Meanwhile X account @@zamalhossain alleged that the minority Hindu population in Bangladesh is under threat and the country is full of corpses. (Archive) The terrorists brutally killed Chhatra League leader Suman and left his body under the bridge in the Langalband Brahmaputra River. All around Bangladesh, there are only corpses and corpses!#UnitedNations#UnitedNationHumanRights#Amnestyinternational#BangladeshCrisis#CNN#BBC… pic.twitter.com/3UiFiuoTze — MD Zamal Hossain (@zamalhossain) January 30, 2025 Fact Check To understand the truth behind the viral video, we ran a reverse image search on some key frames from the video. This led us to a report by a Bangladesh news outlet Live Narayanganj. The report said that the body of a man named Nayan Mia was recovered from the Brahmaputra river in Sonargaon upazila of the Narayanganj district on the morning of January 28. Mia was reportedly an autorickshaw driver and resident of the Sonargaon area. The police suspect a snatching gang was behind the killing.   We then did keyword search in Bengali and came across other articles by Bangladeshi news portals reporting the murder. Several of these carried the same visuals. News outlet Jugantor cited Mahbubur Rahman, in-charge of the Baidyerbazar Naval Police Outpost in Sonargaon, saying that Mia left home in an auto in the afternoon of January 27 but did not return home. Police suspect that he may have been killed as robbers tried to seize his battery-powered rickshaw. To sum up, the deceased in the viral video is of a Muslim rickshaw driver, Nayan Mia, and not of Hindu student leader Sumon. The killing was likely on account of theft and had no communal angle to it.

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