” SHOCKING AND UNACCEPTABLE”
According to a record created by the Dhaka Medical College Hospital and seen by AFP, at least 52 people were killed in the money on Friday.
Using descriptions provided to AFP by clinic staff, more than half of the fatalities reported so far this year were caused by police flames.
Volker Turk, the UN’s human rights representative, described the student protests as” startling and unethical.”
” There must be objective, rapid and comprehensive investigations into these problems, and those concerned held to account”, he said in a speech.
The city’s authorities power earlier said activists had on Thursday torched, vandalised and carried out “destructive actions” on numerous police and government agencies.
State broadcaster Bangladesh Television’s Dhaka office, which is still operational after thousands of angry learners stormed the tower and set it on fire, is one of them.
One of the top leaders of the main opposition, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ), was arrested, according to Faruk Hossain, a spokesman for the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
” He faces hundreds of cases”, Hossain said, without giving more information on the grounds for Ahmed’s confinement.