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One killed after Bangladesh police fire on Covid-19 protesters
Hundreds of shopkeepers in the capital, Dhaka, protested the lockdown, saying it would hurt their businesses
AFP
April 06, 2021
DHAKA:
One protester was killed and at least three others are in critical condition after police in Bangladesh opened fire on a violent protest against coronavirus restrictions, officials said.
The incident took place Monday (April 5) in the central town of Saltha in Faridpur district, where rumours had spread that a man at a market was injured while police were enforcing Covid-19 controls as cases spike nationwide.
Thousands of people took to the streets in anger.
One, injured in Faridpur police firing, dies
Sun Online Desk
6th April, 2021 02:24:00
One protester, who was injured during police firing over the violent Faridpur incident on Monday night, died at a hospital on Tuesday.
The firing incident took place in the central town of Saltha in Faridpur district, where rumours had spread that a man at a market was injured while police were enforcing Covid-19 controls as cases spike nationwide, reports international news agency AFP.
Thousands of people took to the streets in anger.
One group hurled bricks at a police station, vandalised government offices and torched an officer s home and two government cars, police said.
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Bangladesh: Anti-lockdown Protest Turns Violent As Police Open Fire, At Least Three Shot
Bangladesh police shot live bullets after a group of enraged protesters torched an officer s house and attempted to set a Saltha police station on fire.
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At least three people were being shot after police in Bangladesh opened fire on the anti-lockdown protesters leaving one critical, reported Al Jazeera. Nationwide demonstrations were sparked after the government enforced a week-long ‘strict lockdown’ suspending domestic air travel, railway operations, reducing office capacities by 50 percent, and shutting malls, cafes, and all other nonessential services and establishments within the country to control the rising trajectory of the COVID-19 cases and mitigate the death toll. On Sunday, the country registered 7,087 new cases within 24 hours and 52 fatalities, the highest since August last year when the pandemic hit, according to Johns
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