“CAN’T BREATHE”
Security has been beefed up in the capital with strict restrictions on flying drones around the parliament building.
Late Thursday, people set fire to several buildings in Dhaka, including the offices of leading newspapers Prothom Alo and the Daily Star.
Critics accuse the publications of favouring neighbouring India, where Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina has taken refuge since fleeing Dhaka in the wake of the 2024 uprising.
Staff trapped in the Daily Star newsroom said the building quickly filled with smoke.
“I can’t breathe anymore … You are killing me,” reporter Zyma Islam wrote on Facebook, before firefighters managed to bring the blaze under control and rescue the employees.
Sajjad Sharif, executive editor at Prothom Alo, called it “an attack on freedom of the press, expression, dissent and diversity of opinion”.
The interim government, led by the 85-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, spoke to the editors of the two newspapers on Friday and condemned the vandalism.
The government also urged citizens to resist all forms of mob violence, which it said was committed by a few “fringe elements”.
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