Thousands of riot police fanned out at university campuses across the country in an effort to avert any incidents
A university student was killed and dozens injured on Tuesday in northern Bangladesh, police said, as they fired tear gas and rubber bullets at stone-throwing students protesting for a second day against a quota system for government jobs.
The protesters are angry over public sector job quotas, including a 30% quota for family members of freedom fighters from the 1971 War of Independence, amid high youth unemployment. “We heard a protesting student died after he was taken to hospital. It was not immediately clear how he died,” he said. Violence erupted on Monday when thousands of anti-quota protesters clashed with members of the student wing of the ruling Awami League party.
Protests began earlier this month when the High Court ordered the government to reinstate the 30% job quota.
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