Injured brought to hospital following deadly unrest over job quotas ruling in Bangladesh

Описание: (21 Jul 2024)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dhaka, Bangladesh – 19 July 2024
1. Wide of ambulance and another vehicle carrying injured
2. Various of people carrying injured
3. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Riad (last name not given), student: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOT 4++
“They are firing openly. Three of my brothers (protesters) are already dead at (Bangladesh Kuwait) Maitree Hospital. A bullet hit the head of another brother, and I just brought him to Maitree Hospital. See, there are blood stains on my hand. Why are my hands coloured with the blood of my brothers?”

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dhaka, Bangladesh – 20 July 2024
4. Mid of women mourning the death of her son as she enters Dhaka Medical Collage Hospital, family members supporting her
5. Mid of hospital officials moving covered dead body to morgue
6. Mid of dead body covered in blanket
7. Wide of protesters blocking road, fire in distance
8. Various of army vehicles approaching the protesters
STORYLINE:
Injured people arrived at a hospital in Dhaka after days of nationwide unrest and deadly clashes between police and demonstrators that have killed scores of people.

Bangladesh’s top court on Sunday scaled back a controversial quota system for government job applicants, in a partial victory for student protesters.

Students, frustrated by shortages of good jobs, have been demanding an end to a quota that reserved 30% of government jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971.

The protests have posed the most serious challenge to Bangladesh's government since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina won a fourth consecutive term in January elections that were boycotted by the main opposition groups.

Universities have been closed, the internet has been shut off and the government has ordered people to stay at home.

The protests turned deadly on Tuesday, a day after students at Dhaka University began clashing with police.

Violence continued to escalate as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets and hurled smoke grenades to scatter stone-throwing protesters.

Bangladeshi authorities haven’t shared any official numbers of those killed and injured, but at least four local newspapers on Sunday reported that over 100 people have been killed.

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