Bangladeshi protesters clash with police during strike

A Bangladeshi policeman kicks away a tear gas shell that misfired while trying to disperse activists of Bangladesh Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam, enforcing a daylong general strike in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, Sunday, March 28, 2021. The Islamist group having a strong network of Islamic schools had called for the strike to denounce the deaths of four people in clashes with police involving the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Bangladesh security forces have opened fire and used tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters who were enforcing a nationwide general strike they called to denounce violence at a previous protest over a visit by India’s prime minister.

At least one man was shot in Sanarpara in Narayanganj district after thousands of protesters, mostly students from Islamic schools, blocked a major highway connecting Dhaka with the south-eastern port city of Chattogram, said Mohamamed Zayedul Alam, the area’s police superintendent.