Bangla Mutiny Over

Mutinous members of the Bangladesh Rifles in Dhaka surrendered their weapons on Thursday night as tanks surrounded their headquarters after a second day of gunfire in a mutiny that killed about 50 people. The mutiny had spread to other districts before petering out.

Government officials and police said the mutiny in Dhaka was under control and urged members of the BDR border guards who had mutinied elsewhere in the country over pay and command issues to lay down their arms.

After the mutiny over a pay rise had spread beyond Dhaka to other cantonment areas in the country, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina demanded that the mutineers in the BDR, a paramilitary force deployed on the border with India, should lay down their arms or face tough action.

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