Curfew has been imposed across Bangladesh. Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader came up with the announcement in the evening. He said the decision to deploy the army was taken to maintain law and order in the country. "The army has been deployed to help the local administration as well as to maintain peace and law and order," he told news agency AP. " "The government has decided to impose curfew and the army is being deployed," Sheikh Hasina's press secretary Naimul Islam Khan told AFP. "
The quota reform movement is intensifying in Bangladesh. The protesters rejected the Hasina government's offer to hold talks. "We will continue our movement," one of them, Sarwar Tushar, told AFP. I want Sheikh Hasina to resign. "
Train services across Bangladesh have been suspended. Sheikh Hasina's government has shut down internet services in the country to control the movement. Mobile internet services have been suspended in Bangladesh since Thursday night. According to the BBC, this problem exists in different cities of the country, including the capital Dhaka. State Minister for Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak. According to government sources, the move is aimed at curbing rumour-mongering. The Awami League government has also banned processions and rallies. The movement did not stop. A jail in Narsingdi district was also set on fire.
Prothom Alo, a Bangladesh media outlet, claimed that 27 people were killed in the country as of Thursday night. Of them, 19 have died. Three more people died in Dhaka on Friday. Two of them have been identified. The third person has not been identified. According to media reports, 30 people have died in Bangladesh so far. On the other hand, the news agency AFP, collecting statistics from different hospitals in that country, claimed that 105 people had died due to the conflict between the government and students in Bangladesh till Friday night.
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