“So far, our initial count says that 147 people were killed,” he said at the Secretariat on Sunday in response to a question. This is the first time the government has released an official death toll since violence sparked surrounding the protests on Jul 16. The following day, reports said that six people were killed in clashes in Dhaka, Chattogram, and Rangpur. Students from private universities, schools and colleges took to the streets in solidarity with the quota movement that day. The death toll began to tick up.
