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Nearly 200 mutineers arrested: official
AFP
Dhaka, February 27, 2009
First Published: 10:58 IST(27/2/2009)
Last Updated: 13:46 IST(27/2/2009)
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Bangladeshi security forces have arrested nearly 200 members of the country's border security force following a two-day mutiny in the capital Dhaka, a security official said on Friday. "We have arrested nearly 200 Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) troops who fled their barracks in civilian
dress," a spokesman for the Rapid Action Batallion, the country's elite internal security force, told AFP.

"We were given orders to arrest the mutineers."

The spokesman, Commander Abul Kalam Azad, said checkpoints had been set up at all routes leading out of the capital Dhaka and surrounding the BDR barracks.

"We are searching buses and trucks for any other rebel troops."

At least 22 people were confirmed to have died during the standoff that began on Wednesday. The mutiny ended late on Thursday after the border guards surrendered.


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