The home minister, Asaduzzaman Khan, on Saturday said that no children were killed in the violence centring the student protests for public job quota reforms.
鈥楾he definition of children is different and they are very minors. We think that some of those killed were adolescents,鈥� the minister said responding to a question from a journalist at a briefing at his office in the ministry in the evening.
At least 32 children were killed in Bangladesh during the quota reform protests in July with many more injured and detained, said UNICEF regional director for South Asia Sanjay Wijesekera in a statement on Friday.
Asked whether he would resign from the office as per the protesters鈥� demand, the minister said that if the prime minister desired so, he would do that.
Speaking about the ongoing curfew, he said that the curfew would be relaxed from 6:00am to 9:00pm in Dhaka, Naryanganj, Narsingdi and Gazipur.
