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![]() Bangladeshi police clash with demonstrators after grenade attack
DHAKA (AFP) - Riot police clashed with demonstrators in the Bangladeshi capital as opposition party activists marched in protest at a weekend grenade attack which killed 19 people, witnesses said.
The police, following about 1,000 anti-government protestors, used batons to control the crowd although there were no arrests, an AFP correspondent said.
The demonstrators later scuffled with activists from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the main partner in the ruling coalition government.
BNP supporters also beat up two journalists covering the demonstration leaving them in need of hospital treatment, the AFP correspondent added.
The opposition Awami League has called a two-day national strike for Tuesday and Wednesday in protest at the grenade attack on Saturday which they say was an assassination attempt against party leader and former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed.
The attack sparked violent protests and spontaneous strikes in many towns and cities across the country Sunday.
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