(16 Jul 2025)
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Gopalganj, Bangladesh – 16 July 2025
1. Various of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s supporters throwing stones at the police
2. Various of police firing rubber bullets towards Hasina supporters
3. Various of Hasina supporters blocking road and throwing stones, fire in the foreground
4. Wide of policeman detaining a Hasina supporter
5. Soldiers on armoured personnel carrier and police preparing to advance
6. Armoured personnel carrier and police advancing on Hasina supporters
7. Soldiers in APC standing with smoke and fire visible behind
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Dhaka, Bangladesh – 16 July 2025
8. Various of supporters of National Citizen Party (NCP) and other student groups blocking the Shahabag roundabout while chanting
9. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Maida Iqbal Sharmi, student:
"If this government does not ensure that the Awami League (Hasina’s Party) can no longer remain in Bangla (Bangladesh) for even a single day, then let it be known all of Bangladesh is already blockaded, and this blockade will not be lifted. My question to the government is why were my fellow comrades injured there (in Gopalganj)? If they cannot return safely to Dhaka, then this sit-in movement will spread across all of Bangladesh."
++NIGHT SHOTS++
10. Various of students with flaming torches, carrying empty coffin (representing students who lost their lives in last year’s protest) and chanting against the violence in Gopalganj
STORYLINE:
Bangladeshi security forces on Wednesday clashed with supporters of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, leaving at least four people dead and scores injured, a hospital official and local media said.
The violence erupted in the morning and spread as a new political party formed by students who led the uprising against Hasina in August last year announced a march toward southwestern Gopalganj district, Hasina’s ancestral home, and her Awami League party’s stronghold.
TV footage showed pro-Hasina activists armed with sticks attacking police and setting vehicles on fire as a convoy of about 20 vehicles carrying the leaders of the National Citizen Party arrived as part of commemorations of the uprising.
Top leaders of the party took shelter in the office of the local police chief as footage showed some of them were being escorted by soldiers to an armored vehicle for safety.
Jibitesh Biswas, a senior official of a state-run hospital, told reporters that at least three people were brought in dead.
The country’s leading English-language Daily Star reported that four people died.
Later on Wednesday, authorities imposed an overnight curfew in the district.
Bangladesh has been in political turmoil since Hasina was toppled and fled to India.
The interim leader, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, took over three days after her ouster and pledged to restore order.
He said a new election would be held in April next year.
Gopalganj is a politically sensitive district because Hasina father’s mausoleum is located there.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the country’s independence leader, was buried there after he was assassinated along with most of his family members in a military coup in 1971.
The students’ party launched its ‘July March to Rebuild the Nation’ on July 1 across all districts in Bangladesh as part of its drive to position itself as a new force in Bangladeshi politics, which as been largely dominated by two dynastic families.
AP video by Abdullah Apu An and Al Emrun Garjon
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