B'desh orders shoot at sight during opposition strike

March 27, 2013 15:43

Bangladeshi authorities today issued "shoot at sight" orders as main opposition BNP and its allies in 18-party coalition enforced a nationwide 36-hour strike demanding resignation of the ruling Awami League government.

"Orders have been issued to shoot at sight the saboteurs who will be seen setting on fire the trains or buses or carrying out sabotages of different other types as Home Minister Mahiuddin Khan Alamgir met with senior officers of police and other law enforcement agencies ahead of the hartal," the mass circulation Prothom Alo newspaper reported.

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