Bangladesh imposes curfew, deploys army as job quota protests continue
Al Jazeera
The curfew comes amid a telecommunications blackout that has left the country of 170 million cut off from the world.
Bangladesh has announced the imposition of a curfew and the deployment of military forces after days of clashes at protests against government job quotas across the country.
“The government has decided to impose a curfew and deploy the military in aid of the civilian authorities,” Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s press secretary Nayeemul Islam Khan, told the news agency AFP, adding that the curfew would take immediate effect.
Police in the capital, Dhaka, earlier banned all public gatherings for the day – a first since protests began – to forestall more violence.
However, that did not stop another round of confrontations between police and protesters around the sprawling city of 20 million people despite an internet shutdown aimed at frustrating the organisation of rallies.
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