24-11-2024 09:10 PM Jerusalem Timing

Bangladesh Deploys Troops as Protest Toll Mounts

Bangladesh Deploys Troops as Protest Toll Mounts

Bangladesh deployed troops in the north of the country on Sunday as six more people were killed in fresh clashes

Bangladesh deployed troops in the north of the country on Sunday as six more people were killed in fresh clashes.
  
The army was deployed in violence-wracked Shahjahanpur town after more than 5,000 stick-wielding protesters attacked two police stations, forcing police to open fire, they said.
  
"At least four people were killed in clashes after Jamaat-e-Islami supporters attacked us. The toll could rise," Shahjahanpur district's deputy police chief Moqbul Ahmed told AFP, adding that troops had been deployed to boost security.
  
Two other people were also killed on Saturday night, including a ruling party student activist who was allegedly hacked to death by suspected Jamaat supporters, police said. An inter-city train was torched late Saturday in the northwest but there were no casualties, police said.
  
The death toll in the clashes over the war crimes verdicts has risen to 62 since January 21, including 46 killed in the past four days after Jamaat's vice president was sentenced to death, police said.