Dozens injured as police attack student protesters at Bangladeshi university
DOZENS were injured in Savar, near Dhaka, today as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets and set about protesting crowds with truncheons.
The officers charged into clashes between a pro-government student body and other student protesters at Jahangir Naga University outside the Bangladeshi capital.
Protests are demanding an end to a quota system for Civil Service jobs that reserves 30 per cent for relatives of veterans of the 1971 war of independence against Pakistan.
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