Dhaka launches 'Op Devil Hunt', arrests 40

Forty people have been arrested in Bangladesh in an operation launched following a violent attack on

student activists

during vandalism at the house of an

Awami League leader

in Gazipur district.
Dubbed "

Operation Devil Hunt

", a government statement said the operation began after gangs "linked to the fallen

autocratic regime

attacked a group of students, leaving them severely injured". The violence occurred during the attack on the house of former Liberation War affairs minister Mozammel Haque.