(UPDATE) DHAKA — Bangladesh's interim government said on Friday it would contain the vandalism and arson being committed across the South Asian country amid concern from a major Bangladeshi opposition political party and neighboring India over attacks on a historic house linked to ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

Mobs targeting Hasina's supporters have vandalized homes and businesses in various parts of Bangladesh since Wednesday night. Many of the establishments belonging to former lawmakers, Cabinet members and the leaders of Hasina's Awami League party were set on fire, apparently as part of a coordinated campaign involving the former home of her father, Bangladesh's founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in the capital Dhaka.