The central office of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) at Naya Paltan in the capital has been locked while police cordoned off the office with yellow tape treating it as a crime scene.

There are no leaders or activists in the office. This place is being examined by a team of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). 

No one will be allowed to enter here until the investigation is done, said police.

BNP, Jamaat and like-minded parties are observing the dawn to dusk countrywide hartal in protest of the recent police action during the party's Nayapaltan rally. 

On Saturday, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir suspended the grand rally in the capital's Nayapaltan and announced the hartal.

BNP claimed that the rally was suspended as police fired rubber bullets, flash grenades and lobbed tear gas shells, forcing the BNP leaders and activists to leave the rally venue.

BDST: 1322 HRS, OCT 29, 2023
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