1,000 Bangladeshi border guards charged in mutiny

BANGLADESHI police charged more than 1,000 border guards with murder and arson yesterday after a bloody mutiny in the capital that left as many as 148 people dead or missing, most of them army officers.

The government announced plans to form a special tribunal to try the border guards who organised the mutiny.

Of 181 officers, only 33 survived the uprising at the Bangladesh Rifles border force headquarters in Dhaka, said army spokesman Brigadier General Mahmud Hossain.