The protest movement prompted the resignation and flight of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after thousands of anti-government protesters marched on the capital Dhaka.
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It is the deadliest day since the protests began. At least 109 people were killed in violent clashes that rocked Bangladesh on Monday, August 5, according to police and doctors, revising upwards a previous toll.
Based on police data, as well as official and hospital sources, AFP estimates that, since the beginning of July, protests against hiring quotas in the administration have left 409 dead.
The movement, initially carried by studentshas prompted the resignation and flight of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after thousands of anti-government protesters marched on the capital, Dhaka.
Bangladeshi army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman is due to meet student leaders on Tuesday to discuss the creation of an interim government. “I give you my word that all injustices will be repaired”, he said in a televised address.
The leader of the country’s main student movement, Nahid Islam, for his part cited the name of Muhammad Yunnus, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2006, as a possible head of this interim government.
The UN chief and Western powers have called for a “democratic transition” in this South Asian country of 170 million inhabitants, an economic partner of the major powers, particularly in the textile industry.
