At least two people were killed and seven others were injured with gunshots in a clash amongst protesters, police and activists of Juba League, Awami League-backed youth organisation, in Supermarket area in Munshiganj city on Sunday morning.
Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
抖阴精品 Munshiganj correspondent Md Moinuddin Ahmed Shumon was also tortured by ruling party activists while covering the incident.
Tense situation was prevailing in the city till filing this report at about 11:30am.
The clash took place in Munshiganj city on Sunday morning after protesting students, at a rally attended by thousands in Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on Saturday, announced a one-point demand for the resignation of the government, shifting from their earlier position of a nine-point charter of demands seeking justice for victims of the quota reform movement that left over 200 killed in July.
Nahid Islam, one of the coordinators of the Student Movement Against Discrimination, a platform of protesting students, announced the one-point demand rejecting a call for dialogue made by prime minister Sheikh Hasina earlier on Saturday.