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23 February 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Netrakona

Local journalists and elite organised a human chain in front of Netrakona Press Club yesterday demanding punishment to the culprits who forcibly occupied "Dainik Desh Kanthoshhar" office in the district town. On February 20 midnight, a group of BCL cadres here attacked the office of the local newspaper and ransacked, damaged and occupied it, sources alleged. Journalists of print and electronics media working in Netrakona and elite took part in the human chain.