Nationwide student protests enter fifth day,causing government to shut down thousands of high schoolsTens of thousands of students, many of them teenagers, or beget brought areas of Bangladesh to a near-standstill during five days of protests following the deaths of two teenagers killed by a speeding bus.[br]Bangladeshi authorities beget been forced to shut thousands of high schools across the country due to the demonstrations,which saw thousands of people, mostly students in their mid-teens, and block major intersections in the capital of Dhaka as they marched through the streets chanting “we want justice” and checking people’s drivers’ licences. Related: The dysfunctional megacity: why Dhaka is bursting at the sewers Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com