The homes of Education Minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel, Chattogram City Corporation Mayor Rezaul Karim and BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury were attacked in the port city on Saturday evening.
Meanwhile, BNP leader Shahadat Hossain`s house were also vandalised.
Eyewitnesses reported that the attack was carried out at around 6:30pm on Saturday when a procession of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement was passing through Sholoshahar.
Several locals mentioned that the attackers threw bricks and stones at the house on Chashma Hill, damaging the windows on the second floor. Later, the attackers broke through the gate, entered the premises, and vandalised the two cars parked there.
Earlier, a police box at Tiger Pass in the city was vandalised. The procession also set fire to the office of Member of Parliament Mohiuddin Bachchu near the petrol pump at the WASA Morh area.
Chattogram Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Kazi Mohammad Tarek Aziz said, "I heard about the attack on the houses of the education minister, city mayor and BNP leaders. Police are on the way to the spots for inspection."
Earlier the office of Chattogram-10 constituency’s member of parliament Md Mohiuddin at Lalkhan Bazar also came under attack around 5:30pm. The office was torched while police boxes at New Market, Tiger Pass and GEC intersection were torched.
