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The military has been deployed to the streets in Bangladesh in a bid to quell the protests, which are now calling for the resignation of the government.
Bangladesh is in urgent need of cash as inflation starts to accelerate and energy blackouts increase.
Around one million people have been evacuated from their homes and at least 16 people were killed as a cyclone hits the coastal districts of Bangladesh
Officials also advised nearly 33,000 Rohingya refugees, moved from camps to a flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, to stay indoors.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said. "They don't act. They can talk but they don't act," she said on a visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
Bangladesh on Saturday called in the US ambassador to protest sanctions by Washington against its top security officers after seven people including the country's national police chief were accused by the Biden administration of human rights abuses.
Hundreds of children on Wednesday defied a ban on protests at Rohingya refugee camps to mark the fourth anniversary of a Myanmar military crackdown
Since December, Bangladesh has shifted 18,000 out of a planned 100,000 refugees to the low-lying silt island of Bhashan Char from the Cox's Bazar region, where some 850,000 people live in squalid and cramped conditions.
India's Covid-19 surge has spread very quickly to its neighbouring countries.
Dozens were killed in a maritime accident in Bangladesh on Monday.