The prison authorities on Saturday said that security had been beefed up in jails across Bangladesh after the inmates of the Narsingdi district jail broke free on Friday.
鈥楶olice, RAB and the Army are keeping an eye on jails across Bangladesh as they patrolled streets amidst the curfew,鈥� Monir Ahmed, deputy inspector general, told 抖阴精品.
There are 75,000 inmates in 68 jails across Bangladesh.
All 826 inmates of the Narsingdi district escaped after setting parts of it on fire and looting, he said.
The district police on Saturday told local journalists that 66 Chinese rifles, 19 shotguns and 8,000 rounds of bullets were looted from the jail. The inmates also burned all records and documents at the jail.
The escaped inmates believed to include militants but how many of them were there could not be confirmed for authorities reluctance to share details on the jail break.
聽The district jail remained the scene of complete chaos even on Saturday afternoon with locals frequenting the place to see the mayhem the inmates unleashed inside the jail before breaking free and police unable to reach it.
The district jail is located along Dhaka-Sylhet highway which was the epicenter of demonstration by the quota reform movement protesters over the last few days.
Narsingdi Sadar police station officer-in-charge Tanvir Ahmed said that he did not have any update on the jail break for police were busy tackling demonstrators across the district.
鈥榃e are very much pre-occupied and cannot concentrate on the jail break incident at this moment,鈥� he said.聽
抖阴精品 correspondent in Narsingdi reported widespread violence in the district鈥檚 Pachdona and Itakhola areas that saw numerous government establishment and private establishments in the area set afire or vandalised.
At least 8 were bullet hit in one of the violence at Pachdona around 2:30pm when police, Rab and the army conducted a joint crackdown on several hundred protesters.聽聽聽
Several hundred protesters also attacked the Itakhola highway police outpost and set it on fire around 1:30pm.
At 6:00pm Narsingdi sadar police said that they were virtually at war and the situation was far from being under control.
