Dhaka, Jan. 3 -- A businessman in Chattogram has reported that his house was targeted in a gun attack by a group of criminals who arrived in a microbus, mere days after he refused to comply with an "extortion demand".

Managing Director of the Chattogram-based Smart Group, the businessman Mujibur Rahman said the attack on his Chandanpura residence in the city was launched at 7am on Friday.

The attackers fired several rounds at his house before escaping.

Mujib and his family members were in the house at the time of the attack.

No casualties, however, reported, said Hossain Mohammad Kabir Bhuiyan, a deputy police commissioner at the West Zone of the CMP.

An Awami League supporter, Mujib ran in the last parliamentary polls in 2024 as an ...