{"id":82567,"date":"2024-07-16T21:17:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T21:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/five-dead-over-400-injured-in-bangladesh-job-quota-protests\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T21:17:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T21:17:32","slug":"five-dead-over-400-injured-in-bangladesh-job-quota-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/five-dead-over-400-injured-in-bangladesh-job-quota-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Five dead, over 400 injured in Bangladesh job quota protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>At least five demonstrators were killed in Bangladesh on Tuesday during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1846101\/100-injured-as-bangladeshs-student-groups-clash-over-quotas\">violent clashes<\/a> between rival student groups over quotas for coveted government jobs, police said, a day after more than 400 others were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets as university students battled with counter-protesters backing the ruling Awami League party, fighting with sticks and hurling rocks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:250px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/554213\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The violence marks an escalation in efforts to hinder a determined weekslong campaign of sit-in protests and street marches that has ignored calls by Bangladesh\u2019s prime minister and top court for students to return to class.<\/p>\n<p>Three people were killed in the port city of Chittagong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll three had bullet injuries,\u201d Chittagong Medical College Hospital director Mohammad Taslim Uddin told <em>AFP<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome 35 people were injured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rival student groups marched in several key locations around the capital Dhaka, some throwing bricks at each other, with traffic in the city of 20 million almost ground to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>A student was killed outside Dhaka College, inspector Bacchu Mia told <em>AFP<\/em>, adding at least 60 people were also injured.<\/p>\n<p>In the northern city of Rangpur, police commissioner Mohammad Moniruzzaman told <em>AFP<\/em> that a student had been killed in clashes.<\/p>\n<p>He did not give details as to how the student died but said police had fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Rangpur Medical College hospital director Yunus Ali said the \u201cstudent was brought dead to the hospital by other students\u201d, adding that \u201chis body had injury marks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Tauhidul Haque Siam, a student reporter from the city\u2019s Rokeya University, told <em>AFP<\/em> that ruling party supporters had attacked anti-quota protesters, while police fired rubber pellets from shotguns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice opened fire from their shotguns on the protesters,\u201d Siam said, adding he had been injured.<\/p>\n<p>He said the dead student had been \u201ckilled in the firing\u201d, but it was not possible to verify his account.<\/p>\n<p>As the day wore on and with some key highways blocked by the protesters, the authorities deployed the paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) force in five major cities, including Dhaka and Chittagong.<\/p>\n<p>They had been tasked with controlling \u201cthe law and order situation in view of the quota protests\u201d, a BGB spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"violence-against-peaceful-protesters\" href=\"#violence-against-peaceful-protesters\" class=\"heading-permalink\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Permalink\"\/>\u2018Violence against peaceful protesters\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Near-daily marches this month have demanded an end to a quota system that reserves more than half of civil service posts for specific groups, including children of heroes from the country\u2019s 1971 independence.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say the scheme benefits children of pro-government groups that back Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 76, who won her fourth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1803985\">consecutive<\/a> election in January after a vote without genuine opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s clashes came a day after confrontations between anti-quota demonstrators and members of the ruling Awami League\u2019s student wing that left more than 400 people injured in Dhaka.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International afterwards urged Bangladesh to \u201cimmediately guarantee the safety of all peaceful protesters\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller also denounced the \u201cviolence against peaceful protesters\u201d, prompting a rebuke from Bangladesh\u2019s foreign ministry.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least five demonstrators were killed in Bangladesh on Tuesday during violent clashes between rival student groups over quotas for coveted government jobs, police said, a day after more than 400 others were injured. 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