, Dec. 19 -- journalist Elias Hossain on Thursday attacked the office building of The Daily Star, Bangladesh's leading English-language daily, and later set it on fire, creating panic in the area in the aftermath of the death of Sharigf Osman Hadi, a frontliner in the July Uprising who was shot on December 12.

According to the Fire Service and Civil Defence Headquarters, duty officer Md Shahjahan said they received information about the fire at around 12:40am, following which a fire service unit was dispatched to the scene to extinguish the blaze.

Until the filing of this report, efforts were underway to bring the fire under control.

Earlier, soon after the attack was launched by the mob, members of law enforcement agencies-particularl...