Fresh protest in Bangladesh over remarks about Prophet Muhammad by Indian official

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DHAKA - Around 10,000 Muslims demonstrated in the Bangladeshi capital on Thursday in the second protest in a week over The authorities in India have, meanwhile, ordered heightened security in sever

al regions for the coming Friday prayers after two people were shot dead in protests there last week, local media reported.the comments by a spokesman for India's ruling party on May 26.

"There were around 10,000 marchers. They were peaceful," senior police official Enamul Haq told Agence France-Presse. Speakers at the Dhaka rally on Thursday called for a boycott of Indian products, and demanded Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally lodge a protest with India. Last year, at least six people were killed when widespread anti-Hindu riots swept the south-east of Bangladesh after an alleged desecration of a Quran, Islam's holy book, in a Hindu temple.

As largely peaceful protests raged in several Indian cities last Friday, police opened fire in eastern Ranchi, killing two people after demonstrators threw stones and bottles.

 

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