2 Bangladeshis run over by truck
Two Bangladeshi workers were run over by a truck of Bahrain demonstrators around 8:30pm Bangladesh time on Tuesday.
The dead are Abdul Hannan and Mohammad Ekhlas hailing from Golapganj in Sylhet, said Muhammad Ibrahim, Bangladesh's first secretary (labour) in Bahrain.
The two were waiting to get on a bus at Sitra in the Bahrain capital Manama to return to their house from work around 5:00pm local time.
The truck of the protesters allegedly drove over them, he told The Daily Star from Bahrain where around 1.5 lakh Bangladeshis work.
The bodies were kept at the Sulaimania Hospital in Manama.
The Bahrain government on Tuesday declared a state of emergency and launched a military operation following waves of violent protests by demonstrators demanding political reform.
Meanwhile, Bangladeshis in the Gulf state are concerned at the deteriorating situation, Ibrahim said.
The crisis deepened after attacks on workers of the Indian sub-continent on Sunday. A group of demonstrators attacked some Bangladeshi and Pakistani workers in Manama, leaving about 20 Bangladeshis injured.
A Pakistani national was killed in the attack, said Ibrahim.
Thirteen of the Bangladeshis were released after initial treatment, while seven were admitted to a hospital in Old Manama. Five more were released yesterday.
The conditions of the two others, who are still in the hospital, were improving.
On brining back the Bangladeshis, Ibrahim said the situation is not “that critical”. He hopped the situation will calm down following the military operation.
Meanwhile, the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) condemned the attacks on Asian workers in different parts of Manama.
"The BCHR condemns, unequivocally, the violent targeting or harassment of any segment of Bahraini society," said a statement of BCHR yesterday.
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