Published on: Wednesday, April 07, 2021
By: AFP
Shop workers protest against restrictions imposed as a preventative measure against the coronavirus, in Dhaka.
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 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 group hurled bricks at a police station, vandalised government offices and torched an officer’s home and two government cars, police said.
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.