(27 Feb 1996) T/I: 10:25:26 GS 10:14:40


Three people were killed and hundreds injured on Monday (26/2) during violence on the third day of a strike called by opposition political parties in Bangladesh. Two policemen were critically hurt. The general strike has shut shops, banks, schools and industries. Police and activists clashed at a railway station in Dhaka, the capital.

SHOWS:

26/2 TONGI, BANGLADESH
Tongi railway station,
police patrolling area
police on megaphone trying to break up the strike, saying "we will shoot"
police firing tear gas, tear gas shells
paramilitary troops, cloud of tear-gas
tear-gas fired at strikers
injured man on stretcher

26/2 DHAKA
Richardson meeting with opposition leader SK Hasina
the two seated and chatting

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