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Unruly people set the July Memorial on fire near Pirojpur Central Shaheed Minar in Pirojpur Sadar upazila on early Saturday.

Rabiul Islam, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said some unidentified people set the July Memorial on fire at about 2:00am.


A portion of the memorial was gutted in the fire.

A total of 64 July memorials were built in 64 districts commemorating the martyrs of the July uprising.