DHAKA: In a bid to control the turmoil erupted across the Bangladesh after an Islamist was sentenced to death by a war tribunal last week, authorities deployed army on Sunday in a northern district of the country.
At least eight people were killed on Sunday in country’s northern distict in clashes between police and Jamaat-e-Islami’s activists who took to the streets denouncing an ongoing war crimes trial that have caused death penality to three of the JI’s leaders.
With the latest casualties, the death toll in days of rioting has climbed to 60 since Thursday after a war crimes tribunal sentenced JI leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee to death for atrocities committed during Bangladesh’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan.
DND
