Bangladeshi news channel Channel 24 abruptly went off air on Thursday (July 18) as telecommunications were widely disrupted amid violent student protests against quotas for government jobs.
Authorities had cut some mobile services on Thursday to try to quell the unrest but the disruption spread across the country on Friday (July 19).
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Authorities had cut some mobile services on Thursday to try to quell the unrest but the disruption spread across the country on Friday (July 19).
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00:00Bangladeshi news channel Channel 24 abruptly went off air on Thursday as telecommunications
00:06were widely disrupted amid violent student protests against quotas for government jobs.
00:12The channel suddenly went to a black screen in the middle of a news broadcast.
00:17Authorities had cut some mobile services on Thursday to try to quell the unrest, but the
00:22disruption spread across the country on Friday.
00:25Telephone calls from overseas were mostly not getting connected, and calls through the
00:29internet could not be completed.
00:32Meanwhile, police in riot gear were seen standing guard, and security checkpoints were set up
00:37in Dhaka on Friday following the fresh violence.
00:41Some pro-government protesters were also seen marching through the streets chanting slogans
00:46and waving the national flag.
00:48Although the protests were sparked by student anger against the controversial quota system,
00:54some analysts have said that tough economic conditions, including high inflation, rising
00:59unemployment and depleting foreign reserves, were providing fuel to the fire.
01:04French news agency AFP reported that the death toll in Thursday's violence had risen to 32.