Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed has said an electrical short circuit is the suspected cause of the fire at the ancestral home of reserved-seat MP Nusrat Tabassum in Kushtia, but investigators are yet to rule out arson.
Speaking in Parliament on Thursday (November 12), he said preliminary findings pointed to an electrical fault, while the investigation was continuing to establish the exact cause.
Nusrat and NCP leaders alleged that petrol bombs were thrown at the house, but police said they had found no physical evidence of a petrol bomb attack.
-AH