Bangladesh imposes shutdown as death toll from student protests mounts

Communications blackout persists as deadly crackdown on demonstrators continues in the nation of 170 million.

Bangladesh enforced a nationwide curfew to quash student-led demonstrations against government job quotas with military personnel and police patrolling the largely deserted streets of the capital, Dhaka.

Dozens of people have been killed this week and several thousand are believed to have been injured, the Reuters news agency reported citing data from hospitals across the country. The…