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Dozens killed, hundreds injured in one of Bangladesh’s deadliest civil unrest in more than a decade

2024-07-18

Protests over Bangladesh’s controversial quota system that reserves 30% of civil service jobs for children and grandchildren of 1971 war veterans have turned deadly. Different factions of protesters clashed, and police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and sound grenades. The government has closed all academic institutions across the country and deployed paramilitary troops.

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