(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –For more than a week, Bangladesh has been gripped by mass protests triggered by the death of two children in a traffic accident.
The demonstrators, overwhelmingly young people, are demanding that the government take action to improve road safety.
The movement has developed into a major standoff, and there have been scenes of violence in the streets of the capital, Dhaka, home to 18 million people.
Here is how the story unfolded.
