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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Shafiqul ALAM

More Than 500 Arrested In Bangladesh Capital Over Deadly Unrest

A curfew has been imposed and soldiers are patrolling cities across Bangladesh (Credit: AFP)

More than 500 people, including some opposition leaders, have been arrested in Dhaka over violence that has wracked Bangladesh and killed 163 people since students started protesting against civil service hiring rules, police said Monday.

What began as demonstrations against politicised admission quotas for sought-after government jobs has snowballed into some of the worst unrest of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's tenure.

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