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Opposition-led strike in Bangladesh turns violent

06.07.2011 17:32

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DHAKA (Reuters) - At least 50 people were injured in Bangladesh in clashes between protesters and police on Wednesday, the first day of a two-day strike called by opposition parties to protest against the abolition of a system of holding national elections under a non-partisan caretaker administration. Police detained nearly a dozen activists from former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP) and the...

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