Bangladesh's Yunus Hails Slain Student In Appeal For Unity

A student creates a wall painting along a road in Dhaka: the interim administration faces a monumental challenge of ending disorder and enacting democratic reforms (Credit: AFP)

Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus appealed for religious unity Saturday as he embraced the weeping mother of a student shot dead by police, a flashpoint in mass protests that ended Sheikh Hasina's 15-year rule.

Nobel laureate Yunus, 84, returned from Europe this week to helm a temporary administration facing the monumental challenge of ending disorder and enacting democratic reforms.