DHAKA (Reuters) – Violence that erupted in Bangladesh during last month’s anti-government protests killed more than 1,000 people, the interim health ministry chief said on Thursday, making it the bloodiest period in the country’s history since its 1971 independence.
The violence erupted during a student-led movement against public sector job quotas, which later intensified into an uprising against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who resigned and fled to India on Aug. 5 moments before her residence was stormed by hundreds of protesters.
(Reporting by Ruma Paul in Dhaka; Writing by Shivam Patel; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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