Jamaat office set afire
ATM booth of Islami Bank vandalised
Unidentified people set fire to the office of Jamaat-e-Islami at Chak Farid Colony area in Bogra town early yesterday. Photo: STAR
A gang set fire to an office of Jamaat-e-Islami in the district town early yesterday. Witnesses said, some unidentified people entered the three-storey building, housing the publicity and publication office and store-room of the party, at Chak Farid in Colony area around 4:00am by breaking open a window. Later they set fire to two rooms of the party office. The building also houses a mosque and an orphanage run by Jamaat-backed Darus Suffah Trust. A motorbike, some furniture of the office and a number of books on the party were gutted in the fire. Nazim Uddin, secretary of Bogra district Jamaat unit, alleged that the people who have been leading the Gonojagoron Mancha might have set their office on fire. Kawser Ali, a fire service official, however, said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at a room of the office and soon spread to another adjacent room. On information, a firefighting unit of the town rushed in and doused the blaze after one hour's frantic efforts at about 5:00am, he said. In Jessore, a group of unruly youths vandalised an ATM booth of Islami Bank at Noapara Bazar on Sunday evening, reports UNB. Abdus Salek, officer in-charge (OC) of Abhoynagar PS, said a procession brought out by anti-hartal supporters was passing by the bank's Noapara branch in the evening. At that time, a section of youths from the procession threw brickbats at the branch office and vandalised its ATM booth.
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