They are at least now 93 dead in the last few hours in Bangladesh. Among the dead are 13 police officers, who were lynched during an assault on a police station. The protests, which began a month ago to change the system of access to public jobs, have led the government to declare an indefinite curfew throughout the country.

The eastern district of Feni recorded the highest number of deaths, five. Four people, including an official and his bodyguarddied in the northern district of Rangpur. Clashes in the Bangladeshi capital, like in many other parts of the country, turned the city into a war zone on Sunday due to violent clashes between protesters and Hasina supporters, many of whom were carrying sticks and metal pipes.

In the face of the escalation of violence, the Ministry of the Interior reimposed a curfew at dusk in all cities of the countryas well as a blockade of telecommunications networks. Since the beginning of July, the Student Movement Against Discrimination has been demanding the end of reserved positions in public employment offers for descendants of freedom fighters in the 1971 war of independence.

Initially peaceful, The protests led to violence in the middle of last month.following attacks by government supporters and after Hasina compared the students to a group that collaborated with Pakistan to try to prevent the separation of Bangladesh.