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Bangladesh security chief among mutiny dead
AFP - 1 hour 15 minutes ago
DHAKA (AFP) - - Soldiers in Bangladesh uncovered 38 dead bodies of senior army officers in a mass grave Friday, including the chief of the border security force, bringing to 66 the number killed in a mutiny.
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Major General Shakil Ahmed, chief of the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), was among the dead found in the grave which soldiers and sniffer dogs discovered following the revolt by rank-and-file border guards that began in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday.
"The body of the chief of the BDR was found late Friday buried along with many others. It had been shot several times and was badly decomposed," fire brigade director Sheikh Mohammad Shahjalal said.
"Colleagues identified him," he said.
The fate of Ahmed's missing wife and teenage son was unknown, he said.
A joint funeral for all of those killed was to be held once all bodies had been recovered and three days of national mourning were declared from Friday.
A further 28 bodies were found, including some pulled from sewers and manholes, but the whereabouts of around 70 army officers taken hostage by the mutineers remained unclear, after the rebels surrendered and returned to barracks late Thursday.
The search for more bodies was to continue Saturday.
"We have arrested more than 200 Bangladesh Rifles troops who fled their barracks in civilian dress. We were given orders to arrest the fleeing mutineers," a spokesman for the Rapid Action Battalion, Commander Abul Kalam Azad, told AFP.
He said checkpoints had been set up at all routes leading out of Dhaka and surrounding the BDR barracks, with four suspected mutineers arrested in the northern city of Bogra.
"We are searching buses and trucks for any other rebel troops," he added.
The BDR guards, who were demanding better pay and conditions, surrendered after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina warned they were on a "suicidal" path that could end only in bloodshed.
The premier visited some of the victims -- both military personnel and their families -- in hospital Friday and warned that those responsible for the deaths and injuries would face serious consequences.
Despite her promise of an amnesty a day earlier for troops who surrendered, authorities said those who had killed would not get off lightly.
"These senior military personnel have been killed in a planned and calculated manner. It's a grisly slaughter. We will punish these criminals," cabinet minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak told reporters.
As calm returned Friday to Dhaka, one regular army officer held hostage by the guards told AFP of his escape as his captors opened fire indiscriminately.
"It was cold-blooded murder," Syed M. Kamruzzaman said, adding the BDR chief was gunned down in front of him.
"They hurled abuse at us and gunned down whoever they wanted. I was shot at seven times and was lucky to get out alive."
Tensions in the BDR had been simmering for months but erupted into violence early Wednesday when senior officers rejected appeals for more pay, subsidised food and holidays.
It then petered out after Sheikh Hasina -- who took office only two months ago, although she had served as premier once before -- appeared on national television and threatened to put down the mutiny by force.
The violence was the first major crisis she has faced since her landslide election victory on December 29 ended two years of army-backed rule.
Manzoor Hasan, director of BRAC University's Institute of Governance Studies in Dhaka, told AFP there were a "few worrying hours" where she appeared to be losing control.
"It was a bit of a baptism by fire for her. It was a critical test but I think in the end she tackled it competently," he said.
The revolt has highlighted frustrations felt by many in impoverished Bangladesh, which has been hit by high food prices, a slowing economy and rampant corruption.
Bangladesh has had a history of political violence, coups and counter-coups since winning independence from Pakistan in 1971.
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