India, Jan. 13 -- A 28-year-old Hindu auto-rickshaw driver, Samir Das, was beaten and stabbed to death in Daganbhuiyan in Bangladesh's Feni district, police and local media said. The killing on January 11 has alarmed human rights groups and neighbours amid a series of violent incidents targeting the country's Hindu minority. Authorities have launched investigations as the victim's family prepares for legal action.

Samir Kumar Das was a battery-operated auto-rickshaw driver who earned his living transporting passengers around his community in Daganbhuiyan. He was the eldest son of Kartik Kumar Das and Rina Rani Das. Friends and neighbours described him as a hard-working young man supporting his family through his work on the bustling stre...