A mob in Kushtia district, Bangladesh, beat self-proclaimed spiritual leader Shamim Reza Jahangir to death on Saturday, officials confirmed. Jahangir, believed to be in his 60s, died after hundreds stormed his residence and attacked him with sticks, according to chief administrative official Touhid bin Hasan. The violence followed the resurfacing of an old video on Friday in which Jahangir allegedly claimed that those who wrote the Quran were illiterate and those who read it were worse off. Police had been alerted and arrived at the scene, but were unable to prevent the attack by more than 200 people. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. The video that triggered the outrage was recorded during Jahangir's brief arrest in 2021 over similar controversial remarks. Bangladesh police spokesman AHM Sahadat Hossain said an investigation is ongoing. Since the fall of former premier Sheikh Hasina's government in August 2024, mob violence has surged, with at least 153 people killed by such attacks by September 2025, according to rights group Odhikar. Saturday's incident marks the first killing of its kind since the Bangladesh Nationalist Party came to power in February.