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Death toll hits 70 in Bangla mutiny

Updated on: 28 February,2009 08:38 AM IST  | 
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Security forces searching the headquarters of a mutinous Bangladeshi border guard unit yesterday discovered the bodies of dozens of officers in "mass graves", raising the death toll to 70.

Death toll hits 70 in Bangla mutiny




The discovery comes a day after the mutinous guards surrendered at the compound, shortly after the government sent tanks in a show of force.



The mutineers had been promised amnesty if they surrendered. But hundreds of fleeing border guards were later detained.



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