A petrol bomb was thrown at the ancestral home of former Bangladesh cricket captain and former Awami League MP Shakib Al Hasan on Wednesday night, hours after he appeared virtually at a press conference alongside the country’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in India.
The attack took place around 8:45 pm local time at Shakib Al Hasan’s ancestral residence in the Keshabmor area of Magura town. The house was also vandalised.
The incident came shortly after Sheikh Hasina addressed a virtual press conference organised at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in New Delhi.
“Torching residences : the cost of attending Awami League press conference. Neo fascism engulfs Bangladesh,” the Awami League said in a statement.
