A monk of a Buddha Bihar was hacked allegedly by another monk following a “dispute over the temple’s land” in Cox’s Bazar town early today.

Upen Di Moha Teru, 77, is a monk of Woi Ma Tara Buddha Bihar, our Cox’s Bazar correspondent reports quoting Bakhtiar Uddin Chowdhury, officer-in-charge of Cox’s Bazar Sadar Police Station.

The OC said Teru came under the attack at Boillapara around 5:00am.

Prof Ketin Ong, principal of Cox’s Bazar City College and director of Rakhain Development Foundation, claimed that Mong N Ante, 40, a local monk, made the attack on Teru as he has been claiming that the land where the temple has been set up is belongs to his family.

But locals said the land was sold years ago.

“We are trying to arrest alleged attacker Mong and alerted police and Border Guard Bangladesh so that he cannot escape to Myanmar,” OC Bakhtiar said.

Teru received injuries on his head, shoulder and other parts of his body, police said.

The injured monk was taken to Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital but doctors referred him to Chittagong Medical College Hospital, said Rafiqul Islam, a doctor of the local hospital.