adminDhaka. — The death toll from weeks of political violence in Bangladesh passed 100 yesterday when police found six bullet-riddled bodies in the capital Dhaka.
Hundreds of vehicles have been fire-bombed and scores of activists shot dead since opposition leader Khaleda Zia called a transport blockade in early January to try to force new elections, plunging the country into chaos.
The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party has accused police of deliberately killing its activists to try to suppress the protests, a charge the authorities deny.
“Police have shot them dead and have invented stories to hide their crimes,” said BNP spokesperson Sayrul Kabir Khan of the six dead, whom he said were all shot at close range.
He said 67 opposition supporters had been killed by the security agencies since the start of the protests. — AFP.
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