DHAKA: Bangladeshi student protesters stormed a prison and freed hundreds of inmates Friday (Jul 19) as police struggled to quell unrest, with huge rallies in the capital Dhaka despite a police ban on public gatherings. This week's
Protesters shield themselves with a metal sheet during a clash with Border Guard Bangladesh and the police outside the state-owned Bangladesh Television as violence erupts across the country after anti-quota protests by students, in Dhaka, Bangladesh , Jul 19, 2024. DHAKA: Bangladesh i student protesters stormed a prison and freed hundreds of inmates Friday as police struggled to quell unrest, with huge rallies in the capital Dhaka despite a police ban on public gatherings.
At least 52 people were killed in the capital on Friday, according to a list drawn up by the Dhaka Medical College Hospital and seen by AFP. "There must be impartial, prompt and exhaustive investigations into these attacks, and those responsible held to account," he said in a statement. Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesman Faruk Hossain told AFP that officers had arrested Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed, one of the top leaders of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party .that reserves more than half of civil service posts for specific groups, including children of veterans from the country's 1971 liberation war against Pakistan.
Her administration this week ordered schools and universities to close indefinitely as police stepped up efforts to bring the deteriorating law and order situation under control. The network said more than 700 people had been wounded throughout Thursday including 104 police officers and 30 journalists.
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