DHAKA, Bangladesh — Attackers set fireplace to the headquarters of a Bangladesh celebration that supported the nation’s ousted chief Sheikh Hasina on Thursday evening, media studies stated. There was no info if anybody was injured.
Nobody instantly claimed duty for the assault on the Jatiya Occasion places of work in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. TV stations and different media stated the attackers stormed the celebration headquarters in Dhaka’s Bijoy Nagar space, clashing with celebration members who have been there and ultimately setting the premises on fireplace.
The prolong of the harm was not instantly recognized. Firefighters rushed to the scene, in accordance with Rashed bin Khaled, an official of the Fireplace Service and Civil Protection. Bin Khaled, who spoke to The Related Press by cellphone, had no different particulars.
The celebration is Bangladesh’s third largest and was based by former army dictator H.M. Ershad within the Eighties.
Because the assault was underway, a outstanding chief of a scholar protest motion that led to Hasina’s ouster in August stated the Jatiya Occasion ought to be “destroyed” for its assist of her authorities.
Hasnat Abdullah, the scholar chief, claimed in a Fb submit that the Jatiya celebration was “a nationwide betrayer.”
Abdullah is from the Anti-Discrimination Scholar Motion, which spearheaded the July protests. He additionally urged college students to assemble on the Dhaka College and march towards the Jatiya Occasion headquarters.
Mujibul Haque Chunnu, the celebration’s secretary common, blamed the scholars for the assault. “Persons are watching what they’re doing with us,” he stated. “It’s reside in social media … they’re doing it publicly, brazenly.”
Hasina’s Bangladesh Awami League celebration dominated the nation for 15 years, since 2009. Her critics stated the Jatiya Occasion had acted to offer Hasina’s rule a veneer or democracy as different main political events didn’t participate within the elections.
Hasina fled the nation to India on Aug. 5, after the student-led demonstration morphed into an anti-government protest motion. Tons of of scholars, safety officers and others have been killed in the course of the turmoil.
Later, tons of extra, together with Hasina’s supporters, have been killed in revenge assaults or in mob violence throughout the South Asian nation. She now faces arrest warrants for the killings in July and August.
Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi Nobel laurate, took over as head of an interim authorities backed by the scholar group and the nation’s influential army in August.
Nevertheless, his administration has struggled to revive order.
