Dhaka Metropolitan Police Spokesman, Faruk Hossain, on Monday revealed that over 500 people, including some opposition leaders have been detained over a series of violent protests in Bangladesh.
Hossain said that the third-most senior leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, BNP, Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, and the spokesperson, Rahul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed were among the detainees.
He added that a former national football captain turned senior BNP figure, Aminul Huq and Mia Golam Parwar, the General Secretary of the country’s largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, were also arrested.
The Police spokesperson confirmed that at least three policemen had been killed during the unrest in the capital and about 1,000 injured.
500 arrested in Bangladesh over violent protest
