DHAKA, Bangladesh - A protester from Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami party has been shot dead and 15 others injured during fresh clashes between police and opposition activists.
The protester was shot in the chest on Thursday in the southern town of Dumuria on the fourth day of a nationwide strike.
Police said they fired live rounds at 500 supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami during protests to demand the release of the head of its student wing.
The violence is the latest to hit Bangladesh stemming from a continuing war crimes tribunal, at which almost the entire Jamaat leadership is on trial for crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence against Pakistan.
The latest killing brought the overall death toll from clashes triggered by the trials to 98 since January 21 when the court handed down its first verdicts.
Source: Al Jazeera
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