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China Daily | Updated: 2009-02-28 08:15

Mutiny toll at 70

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina drew praise on Friday for bringing a swift end to a mutiny by paramilitary troops who slaughtered scores of their officers, accounting for most of a death toll now put at more than 70.

The mutiny in Dhaka ended late on Thursday after the rebels handed over their weapons following an amnesty offer and an appeal by Hasina to return to the barracks.

A fire service official who declined to be named said more than 50 bodies had been recovered from the BDR headquarters complex on Friday, which would take the death toll to more than 70, most BDR officers but including at least four civilians.

(China Daily 02/28/2009 page11)

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