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PM visits damaged Setu Bhaban, Disaster Management Dept

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday visited the massively damaged Setu Bhaban and Department of Disaster Management at Mohakhali by the BNP-Jamaat-Shibir men during the nationwide mayhem centering the quota reform movement.

After entering the Setu Bhaban, she looked appalled seeing its different damaged sections as she had teary-eyed, reports BSS.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, among others, were present.

Several hundred of miscreants stormed into the Setu Bhaban on July 18 last and vandalized it badly, set it on fire, and looted government property from the bhaban.

They also vandalized many vehicles, motorbikes, ransacked different sheds and rooms and later set those on fire and beat many employees of the Setu Bhaban black and blue.

The prime minister later inspected the Department of Disaster Management at Mohakhali and saw different sections of the damaged establishment which was also came under terror attack on July 18.

High officials of the Setu Bhaban and Department of Disaster Management gave a brief description of the devastation of the two buildings.

The terror attacks on the government establishments were carried out across the country by the BNP-Jamaat clique cashing in on the quota reform movement.