The number of victims of student protests in Bangladesh is increasing

Protests against the government's employment quota turned into riots in Bangladesh, killing 28 people . Demonstrators broke into the office of state television, started a fire in the building's parking lot and lobby. All mosques in the country are offering funeral prayers in absentia for those who died in the riots.

Protests against the government's employment quota in Bangladesh have turned into riots, killing 28 people, Al-Sharq al-Awsat reports.

Internet and mobile communications were completely blacked out in the country on Thursday after 22 people were killed in clashes with police.

Demonstrators broke into the office of state television, started a fire in the building's parking lot and lobby.

"I managed to escape, but several of my colleagues were trapped inside. The attackers entered the building and burned the furniture," said one of the employees.

Funeral prayers for those killed in the riots are being offered in all mosques across the country.

The country's leader, Sheikh Hasina, accused the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party of destabilizing the situation. law enforcement agencies began arresting activists of the party's student wing.