DHAKA: In yet another incident targeting journalists in Bangladesh, a local media reporter was physically assaulted by workers of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) at the party chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office in Dhaka, local media reported.

Jahidul Islam, a staff reporter with the daily newspaper 'Daily Amar Desh', came under attack on Sunday afternoon while filming inside the office, when a scuffle broke out among party aspirants from the Sylhet division.

"I had been at the BNP chairperson's Gulshan office since the morning, gathering news, talking to nomination seekers. Around 4:30 p.m., nomination seekers began quarrelling and scuffling with each other," Bangladesh's leading newspaper The Daily Star quoted Jahidul as saying.

"When I tried to take footage of the inciden

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