Bangladesh has beefed up security on two former female prime ministers who were in jails following the assassination of Pakistani former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, private television channels reported Friday.
Former Bangladeshi prime ministers Sheikh Hasina and Begum Khaleda Zia are detained in makeshift jails in Parliament premise waiting for trials on corruption charges.
The television channels also said the security has been tightened in the diplomatic enclaves in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka since last night. The government has also cautioned the security personnel posted in Bangladesh 67 prisons across the country to keep alert.
The televisions said assassination of former Pakistan Benazir Bhutto prompted the Bangladeshi government to take the move as a similar attack, that killed Bhutto, was made on former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina in a rally in Dhaka 2004 that left 24people killed, but Hasina survived.
The attackers first blasted several grenades and then fired gunshots at Sheikh Hasina, but she escaped death as she was in a bullet proof jeep.
Bengali daily Ittefaq reported on Friday Deputy Inspector General of Prison Major Shamsul Haider Siddiqui told the daily he met the two former prime ministers and requested them not to be afraid of their security question.
About tightening security around 67 prisons, Siddiqui said many VIP prisoners convicted under the current anti-corruption campaign of the current caretaker government led by Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed are now in different prisons across the country. "So, the security has been tightened there," he said.
Source: Xinhua/
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