Approximately 20 people were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, the nation’s hugest, with injuries led by rubber bullets. DHAKA – Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at immense packs of crowds of Bangladesh opposition supporters Saturday to cut down a huge protest in opposition to the prime minister, with an officer and a protester murdered in many hours of violent clashes in central Dhaka. Exceeding than 100,000 supporters of two prominent Bangladesh opposition parties rallied to appeal Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina step down to permit a free and fair vote under a neutral government.
Live video on the verified Facebook page of the sole opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) unveiled more than thousands of people running for security as sound grenades went off one after another and plumes of black smoke rose from the roads. AFP correspondents said the violence sprawled in roads and alleys in the centre of the capital as police fired tear gas and rubber shotgun rounds, while the protesters threw stones and bricks. One officer was murdered and exceeding than 100 wounded, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesman Faruk Hossain, telling AFP: “The constable was hacked in the head by opposition activists.”