Over 500 people, including opposition leaders, arrested in Bangladesh violence

Dhaka:

More than 500 people, including some opposition leaders, were arrested during days of clashes in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka sparked by protests against employment quotas, police said on Monday.
“At least 532 people were arrested in the violence,” Faruk Hossain, spokesman for the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told AFP.

“Among them are some leading figures of the BNP,” he added, referring to the opposition Bangladesh National Party.

Those arrested included BNP’s third-highest ranking politician Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury and its spokesman Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed, he said.

Aminul Huq, former captain of the national football team and current senior BNP official, was also arrested, he added.

Mia Golam Parwar, the general secretary of the country’s largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, was also arrested, Hossain said.

He said at least three police officers were killed and about 1,000 injured, at least 60 of them seriously, in the unrest in the capital.

BNP spokesman AKM Wahiduzzaman told AFP that “several hundred BNP leaders and activists have been arrested across the country in recent days.”

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