Dhaka, Bangladesh: Mutinous Bangladeshi border guards who seized control of their headquarters completed their surrender Thursday after tanks were sent into the capital as a show of force, the government said.
The guards, who are angry over their pay, had agreed overnight to surrender after the government promised them an amnesty and agreed to look into their demands for better conditions. The death toll rose to 11 after one more body was found near the compound.
Image: Mutinous Bangladesh border guards (BDR) listen to a televised speech to the nation by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a guards room inside the BDR headquarters in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009. Bangladeshi tanks rolled into the capital Thursday, hours after the prime minister warned mutinous border guards she would `do whatever is needed to end the violence.`
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