Bangladesh News

Despite stepped up security for the election commissioners, the Mohammadpur residence of Election Commissioner Mahmud Hasan Mansur came under fire yesterday morning.
The commissioner was home when some unknown men shot several times at the house on 7/10, Sir Syed Ahmed Road. None suffered any injury though.

Witnesses said they saw a white microbus roaming the road and its adjacent lanes around 5:45am.

On finding the house after some time, the attackers fired several shots at it and sped away in the microbus, said Momen, a next door guard.

No one tried to stop the vehicle, said an employee of Nabil Paribahan, located 25 yards off the scene.

The law enforcers found five bullet holes on the boundary wall and the tin-roofed guardroom on the premises.

They said the bullets were fired from shotguns.

Seven policemen were posted at the house during the attack. Of them, one was watching over from the guardroom, another was walking on the lawn while the rest were inside the one-storey building.

Nayek Abdul Jabbar, in charge of the guards, filed a case with Mohammadpur Police Station yesterday. He said unknown men fired three rounds of bullets at the house at 5:50am.

Police recovered a shotgun cartridge from the spot.

Mahmud Hasan Mansur, who attended office and returned home as usual yesterday, declined to make any comments on the attack.

Additional policemen have been deployed and different other measures taken following the incident.