DHAKA: Bangladesh police on Friday arrested one of the country’s most senior opposition party leaders in the capital Dhaka, force spokesman Faruk Hossain told AFP, after days of deadly nationwide unrest.

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Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) faces “hundreds of cases”, Hossain said, without giving further detail on the reasons for his arrest.