BANGLADESH

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party's Rajshahi metropolitan unit has called a half-day strike in the city on Tuesday after one person was killed in a clash between Jamaat-e-Islami activists and police on Monday.

Shafiqul Islam Shafique, a ward boy of the town's Islami Medical College Hospital, was shot dead in the afternoon when the activists of key ally of main opposition BNP clashed with the law enforcers during an antigovernment procession in the northwestern city.

Former Rajshahi mayor and metropolitan BNP unit president Mijanur Rahman Minu announced Tuesday's shutdown at a press briefing held at the city BNP unit office in the evening.

Though, Rajshahi Metropolitan Police commissioner Mohammad Obaidullah confirmed the clash and the death, but claimed that Shafique was not shot by police.

"Police did not fire any bullets, they only shot teargas shells," he clarified.