3 opposition workers killed, 100 injured in police firing

pakobserver.net

Monday, January 30, 2012

Dhaka—Three opposition activists were killed and around 100 people injured on Sunday when police opened fire at Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) rallies in the country’s southeast.

Police said the shootings took place in the towns of Chandpur and Laksmipur after the BNP held large demonstrations to demand that the government resign in a dispute about electoral reforms.”They attacked policemen with stones and bricks. We fired back in self-defence. Two BNP activists were killed,” Chandpur police deputy chief Amir Zafar told AFP.

In Laksmipur, one person died when police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at more than 4,000 activists after they “became unruly and attacked police with guns”, local police chief Golam Sarwar said.Police had earlier banned rallies planned on Sunday in the capital city of Dhaka over fears of violent clashes between the BNP and the ruling Awami League party. Read more…

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~ par Alain Bertho sur 30 janvier 2012.

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