Mobilized 13,000 riot police as gasoline prices

13,000 thousand riot police were deployed in the capital Dhaka in Bangladesh to deal with aggressive protests against fuel price increases.

Not only in the capital but across the country, the marches have been held consecutively, making daily life of people turned upside down, traffic congestion, schools and businesses forced to close during day 5, the last working day of week in Bangladesh.

According to authorities, the protest was opposition by the Coalition launched to protest fuel price policy of the government. The crowded streets in the capital Dhaka became deserted.

Riot police deployed in the capital Dhaka.

Dhaka police chief said Benazir Ahmed, has deployed 13,000 police to be ready to respond to every bad situation can occur. According to police, the protests took place in the most peaceful, except for a few extreme cases. However, the rebels said that the police crackdown and beat the protesters, when they held a parade in the streets.

Police also have arrested about 200 extremist elements in the place of demonstrations across the country, while the opposition said that the number of people arrested at least twice the number of police data. Representatives of the opposition pressing: "The government raised fuel prices in time people miserable because of inflation peak."

In fact, petrol price in Bangladesh is still about $ 1.06 lower than the price of this commodity on the world market. So, it's probably not the last price increase was in crude oil prices in the market continuously changes. This is confirmed by a senior official in the Bangladesh government.