{"id":31063,"date":"2021-04-18T02:03:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T17:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/17\/five-people-killed-as-police-fire-at-protesting-workers-in-bangladesh"},"modified":"2021-04-18T02:03:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T17:03:42","slug":"five-people-killed-as-police-fire-at-protesting-workers-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31063","title":{"rendered":"Five people killed as police fire at protesting workers in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employees were demanding unpaid wages and a pay rise at a Chinese-backed power plant, officials and police said<\/p>\n<p>At least five people were killed and dozens injured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/bangladesh\">Bangladesh<\/a> after police opened fire on a crowd of workers protesting to demand unpaid wages and a pay rise at a Chinese-backed power plant, officials and police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police opened fire after about 2,000 of the protesters began hurling bricks and stones at officers at the construction site of the coal-fired plant in the south-eastern city of Chittagong, local police official Azizul Islam told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/17\/five-people-killed-as-police-fire-at-protesting-workers-in-bangladesh\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees were demanding unpaid wages and a pay rise at a Chinese-backed power plant, officials and police saidAt least five people were killed and dozens injured in Bangladesh after police opened fire on a crowd of workers protesting to demand unpaid &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31064,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31063\/revisions\/31064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}