Police imposed a strict curfew with a shoot-on-sight order across Bangladesh as military forces patrolled parts of the capital Saturday after scores were killed and hundreds injured in clashes over the allocation of civil service jobs.
The demonstrations, called for mainly by student groups started weeks ago to protest a quota system that reserves up to 30% of government jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh's war of independence in 1971.
The United States Embassy in Dhaka said Friday that reports indicated hundreds to possibly thousands were injured across Bangladesh. It said the situation was extremely volatile.
Authorities blocked online communications by banning mobile and internet services. Several television news channels also went off the air, and the websites of most local newspapers were down.
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