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Bangladeshi police removes barricades to ex-PM's office after weeks

Xinhua, January 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

About a fortnight after erecting barricades around Bangladeshi ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's office in Dhaka's diplomatic enclave Gulshan, Bangladesh Police early Monday removed all of the barriers.

Khaleda Zia, who alleges that she has been kept confined to her office since the night of Jan. 4, has announced indefinite blockade across the country after her alliance was barred to hold a rally on Jan. 5 in capital Dhaka.

Khaleda Zia's 20-party opposition alliance has been observing a non-stop blockade across the country demanding fresh elections under a non-party caretaker government system.

The fresh wave of violence has so far left 25 people dead and several hundred injured as anti-government protesters battled with law enforcers, attacked rivals, torched vehicles and targeted railway since Jan. 6 morning when Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led opposition alliance enforced nationwide non- stop rail-road-waterway blockade. Endi