Muslim fanatics dug up a three-day-old baby's body from her grave and dumped it by a roadside, it is tonight alleged.
The newborn, who was an Ahmadi Muslim, had only been buried for a few hours in a cemetery in Ghatura, Bangladesh, before being dug up.
Ahmadi Muslims are considered by many mainstream Muslims to be "infidels" because they believe their founder was a prophet.
A distressing photograph of the girl's body laid on a straw mat on a road was widely shared on social media this week.
"Her crime is she was born to an Ahmadi Muslim family," local Ahmadi leader, S.M. Selim, said today.
The act has been condemned across Bangladesh.
But Azad Hazari, a councillor for the area, said the child was finally buried another graveyard some 10 miles (16 kilometres) away. Police have had an involvement in the aftermath, it is said.
Munir Hossain, a local cleric, denied the body had been exhumed but said Muslims prevented the parents from burying the baby at the cemetery.
He added: "It is against the Sharia to let an infidel be buried in a Muslim graveyard.
"The pious Muslims of the village would never let it happen."
The child's father told the Dhaka Tribune he saw some "anti-Ahmadiyya men" gather after the burial and exhume the body.
Ahmadis have faced attacks and had religious rights taken away in some Muslim majority countries, including Pakistan.
The 100,000 Ahmadis in Bangladesh have come under regular attack.
