Attackers set fire to the headquarters of a Bangladesh party that backed ousted leader Sheikh Hasina

Attackers person group occurrence to nan office of a Bangladesh statement that supported nan country's ousted leader Sheikh Hasina

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Attackers group occurrence to nan office of a Bangladesh statement that supported the country’s ousted leader Sheikh Hasina connected Thursday night, media reports said. There was nary accusation if anyone was injured.

No 1 instantly claimed work for nan onslaught connected nan Jatiya Party offices successful Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. TV stations and different media said nan attackers stormed nan statement office successful Dhaka’s Bijoy Nagar area, clashing pinch statement members who were location and yet mounting nan premises connected fire.

The widen of nan harm was not instantly known. Firefighters rushed to nan scene, according to Rashed bin Khaled, an charismatic of nan Fire Service and Civil Defense. Bin Khaled, who said to The Associated Press by phone, had nary different details.

The statement is Bangladesh’s 3rd largest and was founded by erstwhile subject dictator H.M. Ershad successful nan 1980s.

As nan onslaught was underway, a salient leader of a student protestation activity that led to Hasina’s ouster successful August said nan Jatiya Party should beryllium “destroyed” for its support of her government.

Hasnat Abdullah, nan student leader, claimed successful a Facebook station that nan Jatiya statement was “a nationalist betrayer.”

Abdullah is from nan Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, which spearheaded nan July protests. He besides urged students to stitchery astatine nan Dhaka University and march toward nan Jatiya Party headquarters.

Mujibul Haque Chunnu, nan party's caput general, blamed nan students for nan attack. “People are watching what they are doing pinch us,” he said. “It is unrecorded successful societal media ... they are doing it publicly, openly.”

Hasina’s Bangladesh Awami League statement ruled nan state for 15 years, since 2009. Her critics said nan Jatiya Party had acted to springiness Hasina's norm a veneer aliases populist arsenic different awesome governmental parties did not return portion successful nan elections.

Hasina fled nan state to India connected Aug. 5, aft nan student-led objection shape-shifted into an anti-government protestation movement. Hundreds of students, information officials and others were killed during nan turmoil.

Later, hundreds more, including Hasina’s supporters, were killed successful revenge attacks aliases successful mob unit crossed nan South Asian nation. She now faces apprehension warrants for nan killings successful July and August.

Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi Nobel laurate, took complete arsenic caput of an interim authorities backed by nan student group and nan country's influential subject successful August.

However, his management has struggled to reconstruct order.