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A dangerous hostage standoff ended Wednesday night after Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met with paramilitary border troops who had staged a mutiny. Members of the Bangladesh Rifles were holding at least 60 to 70 officers hostage after a gunbattle inside the Rifles’ headquarters in the capital, Dhaka, government officials said. The gunfire killed at least one person and wounded seven others — most of them bystanders struck by stray bullets, medical officials said.
A bus rolled into the fast-flowing Chenab River in northern India, killing at least 20 people, officials said. Authorities were unclear what prompted the gunbattle, but an information ministry spokesman told CNN that several members of the Bangladesh Rifles force apparently staged a rebellion against the head of the force.
A gunbattle inside the headquarters of Bangladesh’s border security force in the capital, Dhaka, killed a bystander and wounded seven others Wednesday. Authorities were unclear what prompted the gunbattle, but an information ministry spokesman told CNN that several members of the Bangladesh Rifles force apparently staged a rebellion against the head of the force.