Shawdesh Desk:

Families of former Bangladesh Rifles soldiers, dismissed and imprisoned after the 2009 BDR massacre, blocked Shahbagh crossing at about 1:30pm on Thursday breaking police barricade in front of the Bangladesh National Museum.

They began the march towards Shahbagh crossing from the Central Shaheed Minar at about 1:00pm demanding to release all imprisoned BDR members and reinstatement of their jobs.

A huge number of police and Armed Police Battalion were present at the Shahbagh crossing.