At least 40 people were killed during revived protests in Bangladesh after a deadly government crackdown last month plunged the country into a dangerous phase.
The government in Bangladesh reimposed a curfew on Sunday and restricted cellular communication, as clashes during protests across the country left dozens of people dead.
Revived and expanded student protests, after a deadly government crackdown late last month, and a call by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s governing party for its own supporters to also take to the streets, have plunged the country of over 170 million into a particularly dangerous phase.
At least 40 people were killed on Sunday across Bangladesh, according to a diplomatic official based in Dhaka, adding to the more than 200 people killed in the crackdown on protests in July.
Tallies by local news media, as well as a statement from coordinators of the student protests, put Sunday’s death toll at over 50.
At least 13 of the dead were police officers, the country’s Police Headquarters said in a statement.
What began as a peaceful student protest last month over a preferential quota system for public-sector jobs has morphed into unprecedented anger at Ms. Hasina’s increasingly authoritarian turn and her management of the economy.
