A Muslim cloth vendor, who was assaulted by a mob that allegedly targeted him after asking his religious identity, died of his injuries in Bihar’s Nawada district on Friday night, The Indian Express reported.

Mohammad Athar Hussain, a resident of Gagan Diwan village, sold clothes on a bicycle. The assault took place on December 5 near Bhattapar village under Roh police station when Hussain was returning home and stopped to look for a puncture repair shop after his bicycle broke down, the newspaper reported.

According to his brother, Mohammad Shakib Alam, Hussain was intercepted by a group of villagers who asked his name and profession before attacking him.

“They assaulted him, cut his ears, beat him with a heated rod,” Alam told The Indian Express .

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