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Arson and crude bomb attacks reported across Dhaka before Sheikh Hasina’s verdict announcement.

Police on high alert as Awami League calls for “Dhaka Lockdown” protest.

Grameen Bank, founded by interim leader Muhammad Yunus, targeted in fresh violence.

Bangladesh was tense on Wednesday after a series of crude bomb and arson attacks hit Dhaka and other districts ahead of a special tribunal’s announcement of the verdict date in the trial of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, PTI reported.

PTI reported that unidentified assailants set fire to the Chandura branch of Grameen Bank in eastern Brahmanbaria early in the day. The predawn blaze damaged documents and furniture but spared the vault. Later, an abandoned railway carriage was torched at Dhaka railway stat

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