The country also reported widespread mobile internet outages.
People dispersing as police fired tear gas during a rally against job quotas at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh on July 17.
“Many people are trapped inside,” the broadcaster said on its Facebook page, adding that the “catastrophic fire” was spreading quickly. But violence worsened on the streets despite her appeal for calm as the police again attempted to break up demonstrations with rubber bullets and tear gas volleys. Helicopters rescued 60 police officers who were trapped on the roof of a campus building at Canadian University, the scene of some of Dhaka’s fiercest clashes on July 18, the elite Rapid Action Battalion police force said in a statement.“They all had rubber bullet injuries,” Kuwait Moitri Hospital assistant superintendent Mahfuz Ara Begum told AFP.
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