Bangladesh police put one officers in the streets in that 13,000 city , police chief says . Police said that the strike was mostly peaceful apart from a few incidents of violence , but the opposition parties said the police and the ruling party men beat up their activists wherever they had tried to bring out a procession . The usually busy streets of Dhaka looked almost deserted of people , vehicles . The opposition alliance launched the four months -long general strike to protest an increase in fuel prices . The opposition claims 13,000 protesters were arrested .
Bangladesh police put one officers in the streets in that 13,000 city , police chief says . The usually busy streets of Dhaka looked almost deserted of people , vehicles . The opposition alliance launched the four months -long general strike to protest an increase in fuel prices . The opposition claims 13,000 protesters were arrested .