Miscreants vandalise East West media house
A group of miscreants equipped with lethal weapons enter the media house around 2:45 pm chanting with several slogans and carry out the vandalism
Miscreants vandalised the East West Media Group’s office in Bashundhara residential area of Dhaka and assaulted a female journalist on Monday.
A group of miscreants equipped with lethal weapons entered the media house around 2:45 pm chanting with several slogans and carried out the vandalism.
They first entered the Radio Capital office and vandalised official equipment, including interior decoration, furniture, doors, window panes, laptops and computers and broadcasting machineries.
A female journalist was also attacked, but she was rescued by her colleagues without sustaining any major injuries.
Later, the attackers vandalised a number of cars and motorcycles parked inside the media complex.
An eyewitness said a group of miscreants abruptly entered the media house and went on vandalism indiscriminately.
Upon receiving the information, Abu Baker Majumdar, one of the coordinators now in Rangpur, in his impromptu reaction said that there is no connection between the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement and the attackers.
East West Media Group PLC is the leading media conglomerate in Bangladesh and a proud subsidiary of the esteemed Bashundhara Group.
Established in 2009 with a commitment to delivering accurate and unbiased news, the media group began its journey with Daily Kaler Kantho, one of the renowned Bangla dailies in the country.
The media complex houses two Bangla dailies, Kaler Kantho and Bangladesh Pratidin, an English daily, Daily Sun, an online news portal, banglanews24.com, and T Sports, a Bangladeshi Bengali-language sports oriented television channel.
