Mob beating took away 36 lives across the country in the first six months of the current calendar year, according to a report by an independent rights and legal aid body.
The highest number of lynching incidents took place in Chattogram while the no such killings occurred in Mymensingh and Rangpur divisions, revealed the data by Ain o Salish Kendra.
In Chattogram, 17 people were killed while the number was nine in Dhaka, added the report.
As many as 37 people were killed in 2018 and 50 in 2017 by mobs, the rights body disclosed.
