Publication Date:
Thu, 2010-08-12 01:04
Police responded with batons and tear gas to beat back
about 5,000 protesters, many of them armed with iron rods and stones, in
Narayanganj town outside Dhaka, local police officer Akhtar Hossain said.
Protesters also blocked traffic and smashed vehicles, and threw stones at the
power station, but caused no major damage to the facility. Several policemen
were among the injured, Hossain said. Similar violence was reported in more
than 10 other towns across this power-starved South Asian nation on Tuesday,
but there was no reports of any injuries. Bangladesh has a daily shortfall of
about 2,000 megawatts of electricity because of aging power plants, resulting
in frequent outages.
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