STAFF CORRESPONDENT

The Daily Star yesterday filed a case accusing 350-400 people of vandalism, arson, and looting at its Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue office early Friday.

According to the case filed by Mizanur Rahman, head of operations at The Daily Star, on December 19, the attackers, carrying local weapons, sticks, and flammable materials, gathered outside The Daily Star building around 12:25am, chanting provocative slogans against the newspaper.

Prior to this, certain online activists had posted inciting messages on social media and encouraged the mob to carry out the attack.

At approximately 12:35am, the group forcibly broke steel gates and glass doors to enter the premises. Inside, they physically assaulted staff, vandalised office property, looted valuables, and set fire to furniture and documents.

More than 200 computers, laptops, cameras, printers, and other electronic equipment, valued at about Tk 5 crore, were damaged or destroyed. Prior to the

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