Death toll hits 70 in Bangla mutiny

28 February,2009 08:38 AM IST |   |  Agencies

Security forces searching the headquarters of a mutinous Bangladeshi border guard unit yesterday discovered the bodies of dozens of officers in mass graves, raising the death toll to 70.


Security forces searching the headquarters of a mutinous Bangladeshi border guard unit yesterday discovered the bodies of dozens of officers in "mass graves", raising the death toll to 70.


The discovery comes a day after the mutinous guards surrendered at the compound, shortly after the government sent tanks in a show of force.

The mutineers had been promised amnesty if they surrendered. But hundreds of fleeing border guards were later detained.



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