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Bangla opposition strike turns violent

gulftoday.ae

December 05, 2011

DHAKA: Thousands of police patrolled the empty streets of Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, on Sunday during a one-day strike called by the opposition over splitting the city into two administrative zones.

Schools, big shopping malls and businesses were shut while traffic was very thin on the street with most transport operators and private car owners preferred to stay off the road during the day-long stoppage across the capital Dhaka as police with riot vans and elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) men kept a sharp vigil.

Rickshaws ruled the city’s streets usually clogged. A few buses and three-wheeler auto-rickshaws were plying the streets. Movement of trains, ferries and planes were normal.

Several Bangladesh National Party (BNP) activists were injured in scuffles with police at a dawn rally, pictures from the private television channel Shomoy showed.

Police fired teargas at protesters as violence broke out during a day-long strike in the capital Dhaka. “Protesters became unruly as they pelted bricks and stones at police and torched a police van and motorcycle. We fired teargas to prevent vandalism,” deputy commissioner of Dhaka police Khorshed Alam told reporters. Read more…