MOSCOW, July 22 (Bernama-Sputnik) -- India has evacuated over 4,500 students from Bangladesh amid deadly student-led protests across the capital of Dhaka, the Indian Foreign Ministry said.
"Thus far, over 4500 Indian students have returned to India," Sputnik reported the ministry said on Sunday.
Among those evacuated were 500 students from Nepal, 38 from Bhutan and one person from the Maldives, it added.
Protests against the Bangladeshi government's quota system for public positions escalated last week following violent clashes at Dhaka University.
Protesters were urging an end to the quota system, which reserves 30 per cent of government roles for family members of 1971 war veterans.
They alleged discrimination and favouritism toward supporters of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, whose party led the independence movement.
On Friday, the Bangladeshi authorities imposed a curfew across the country to quell violence following the deadliest day in the weeks of demonstrations when over 100 people were reportedly killed and at least 300 police officers injured.
-- BERNAMA-SPUTNIK
