Army sent to north Bangladesh to tackle violence
[Dawn] Authorities deployed soldiers in a northern Bangladeshi district Sunday after activists of the country's largest Islamic party clashed with police, leaving three people dead during a nationwide general strike called to denounce an ongoing war crimes trial.
Separately two people died Sunday in a northwestern district during similar festivities.
With the latest casualties, the corpse count in days of rioting has risen to 51 since Thursday after a war crimes tribunal sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami
Posted by: Fred 2013-03-04 |