Student Clash Death Victim Protests Anti-Job Quota With Bangladeshi Police Reaches 16 People

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JAKARTA - Thousands of students armed with sticks and stones clashed with armed police in Dhaka. Bangladeshi authorities have sparked mobile internet services to quell anti-coup protests that have killed 16 people this week.

This national riot has become the largest since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was re-elected for the fourth time, triggered by the high unemployment rate among the younger generation, with nearly a fifth of its 170 million residents losing their jobs or education.

Protesters demand that the state stop setting aside 30 percent of government work for their families fighting in the war of independence from Pakistan in 1971.

Ten people were killed in clashes with police on Thursday, July 18, in Dhaka, including a bus driver whose body was taken to hospital with gunshot wounds to his chest, a pedicab driver and three students, officials. told Reuters.

Hundreds more were injured when police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters who burned vehicles, police posts and other buildings, witnesses said.

Legal Minister Anisul Huq said the government was willing to hold talks with the protesters, but they refused, saying "discussions and shootings did not go hand in hand".

"We cannot trampled on the corpse to hold discussions. Discussions could have been held earlier", protest coordinator Nahid Islam told Reuters.

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Hasina, daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who is the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has so far rejected the demands of the protesters.

Earlier, police fired tear gas to disperse protesters near the Dhaka university campus and authorities cut off some mobile internet services to limit demonstrations.

Police also fired tear gas to disperse students throwing stones blocking highways in the port city of Badminton.