Amid violence in Bangladesh, the house of a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader was reportedly locked from the outside and set on fire by protesters in Lakshmipur Sadar upazila. The seven-year-old daughter of Belal Hossain, a businessman and assistant organising secretary of BNP in Bhabaniganj Union, was burnt to death. Belal and his two other daughters sustained critical burn injuries.