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At least 27 people were killed and scores injured in clashes in Bangladesh on Sunday, as police fired tear gas and lobbed stun grenades to disperse tens of thousands of protesters calling for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign. “They were brought dead to the hospital with bullet wounds,” said Abu Hena Mohammad Jamal, the superintendent of the district hospital. In the northeastern district of Pabna, at least three people were killed and 50 injured during a clash between protesters and activists of Hasina’s ruling Awami League, witnesses said. Munir Uz Zaman / AFP - Getty ImagesTwo more were killed in violence in the northern district of Bogura, and 20 were killed in nine other districts, hospital officials said. Last month, at least 150 people were killed, thousands injured and about 10,000 arrested in violence touched off by demonstrations led by student groups protesting against quotas for government jobs.
Persons: Sheikh Hasina, Hasina, ” Hasina, , , Abu Hena Mohammad Jamal, Hasina’s, Munir Uz Zaman, Samanta Lal Sen Organizations: Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Critics, Police, Awami League, AFP, Getty, Facebook Locations: Bangladesh, Munsiganj, Pabna, Dhaka, Bogura
At least 43 killed as clashes rock Bangladesh, curfew imposed
  + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Students shout slogans during a protest march as they demand justice for victims arrested and killed in the recent nationwide violence over job quotas, in Dhaka on August 3, 2024. Demonstrators blocked major highways on Sunday as student protesters launched a non-cooperation program to press for the government's resignation, and violence spread nationwide. Police stations and ruling party offices were targeted as violence rocked the country of 170 million people. At least five people were killed and dozens injured amid fierce clashes in several places in the capital, Dhaka, police and witnesses said. "They were brought dead to the hospital with bullet wounds," said Abu Hena Mohammad Jamal, the superintendent of the district hospital.
Persons: MUNIR UZ ZAMAN, Sheikh Hasina, Hasina, Abu Hena Mohammad Jamal Organizations: Getty, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Critics, Police Locations: Dhaka, Bangladesh, Munsiganj
Dhaka, Bangladesh Reuters —At least 27 people were killed and scores injured in clashes in Bangladesh on Sunday, as police fired tear gas and lobbed stun grenades to disperse tens of thousands of protesters calling for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign. Mohammad Ponir Hossain/ReutersTwo construction workers were killed on their way to work and 30 injured in the central district of Munsiganj, during a three-way clash of protesters, police and ruling party activists, witnesses said. “They were brought dead to the hospital with bullet wounds,” said Abu Hena Mohammad Jamal, the superintendent of the district hospital. In the northeastern district of Pabna, at least three people were killed and 50 injured during a clash between protesters and activists of Hasina’s ruling Awami League, witnesses said. Two more were killed in violence in the northern district of Bogura, and five were killed in four other districts, hospital officials said.
Persons: Sheikh Hasina, Hasina, ” Hasina, , Abdul Goni, Mohammad Ponir Hossain, , Abu Hena Mohammad Jamal, Hasina’s, Samanta Lal Sen Organizations: Bangladesh Reuters —, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Critics, , Getty, Police, Awami League, Facebook Locations: Dhaka, Bangladesh, AFP, Munsiganj, Pabna, Bogura
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