Six Killed, Over 100 Injured in Bangladesh in Clashes Over Govt Jobs Quota | Read

Dhaka: At least six individuals have reportedly perished, and over a hundred have been injured amid clashes in Bangladesh due to disputes over the government job quota system.
On Tuesday, Bangladeshi authorities deployed the paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in four major cities following the mobilization of numerous police officers in riot gear across university campuses nationwide.
The confrontations began on Monday as activists from the student wing of the ruling Awami League clashed with protesters who argue that the current quota system unfairly prevents the most qualified students from entering government services.
Violence claimed the lives of a university student in northeastern Rangpur, another in the capital Dhaka, and two individuals in southeastern Chattogram, including a student and a bystander.
Previously, protesters had obstructed highways and railway lines in central Dhaka, northwestern Rajshahi, southwestern Khulna, and the significant port city of Chattogram.
Leading the recent week-long protests, Dhaka University students demanded a merit-based recruitment process for first- and second-class government jobs, challenging the existing quota system.
The protesters claimed to have been conducting peaceful demonstrations at two public universities in Dhaka and its vicinity on Monday when they were assaulted by ruling party student activists wielding sticks, stones, machetes, and Molotov cocktails.