Bangladesh charges 1,000 border guards over mutiny massacre

Bangladeshi police have charged more than 1,000 border guards with murder and arson 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.

Army spokesman Brigadier General Mahmud Hossain said that of a total of 181 officers, only 33 are known to have survived the uprising at the Bangladesh Rifles border force headquarters in Dhaka.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police official Nobojyoti Khisa said authorities filed murder and arson cases today against more than 1,000 border guards. It was unclear whether those guards would face the special tribunal or other courts.