Clashes immediately broke out between members of Tehreek-e-Labaik, a hard-line Islamist party, and some 4,000 police sent to break up the protest camp, police official Saood Tirmizi told Reuters. "Police used water cannons initially and now are firing tear gas shells at the protesters," Tirmizi told Reuters. We will fight until end," Tehreek-e-Labaik party spokesman Ejaz Ashrafi told Reuters by telephone from the scene. The protesters have paralysed daily life in the capital, and have defied court orders to disband, demanding that the minister of law fired. The government had tried to negotiate an end to the sit-in, fearing violence during a crackdown.

Source: bd News24 November 25, 2017 06:33 UTC