Anti-gov’t rally protests killing of 2 opposition party members in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Thousands of people supporting Bangladesh’s main opposition political party on Thursday held a massive rally in the capital Dhaka to protest the killing of two party members in an earlier demonstration on Sunday.
According to sources, the supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) clashed with police in the country’s largest island district of Bhola on Sunday as law enforcement tried to disperse their protest rally against price hikes, and the countrywide blackouts due to electricity shortage.
A local party leader, Abdur Rahim, was killed and nearly a hundred were injured during the clashes. Another protester succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday.
Dozens of police officers were also injured, according to authorities.
Addressing the rally, BNP leaders vowed that they would continue their countrywide movement on a more massive scale to remove the ruling Awami League government.
“Until the removal of the fascist Awami League government and a peaceful national election under an impartial caretaker government, we would continue our struggles with people’s support who are fed up with the prevailing anarchy and misrule across the country,” BNP’s Secretary-General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told the rally.
It ended with a funeral prayer for the killed party supporters.
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