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Bangladesh closes down educational institutions indefinitely, protestors call countrywide shutdown Thursday

Dhaka, July 17 (UNI) Singed by widespread violence over job quota protests, Bangladesh authorities have closed down all educational institutions right from primary schools to premier universities indefinitely, as the demonstrating students fighting for merit-based recruitment to the civil services, called for a countrywide shutdown on Thursday.
The agitating students, opposing the quota system in the recruitment to the Bangladesh Civil Services, on Wednesday declared they will enforce a "complete shutdown" across the country on Thursday in protest against the violence inflicted upon hem by law enforcing agencies in different campuses, The Daily Star reported.
Asif Mahmud, a front-ranking leader of the protest movement, gave the shutdown call through a Facebook post which he later shared with journalists.
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