The Bangladesh government has imposed a communications blackout, blocking all internet and social media access since Thursday night.

As student-led protests kill more than 100 people in Bangladesh, the country's police have been ordered to “shoot on sight”. The Sheikh Hasina government has also imposed a nationwide curfew. The curfew, which was imposed at midnight on Friday, was expected to remain in place until Sunday morning.
Bangladesh police are trying to bring the deteriorating security situation under control with military personnel patrolling the streets of the capital.

A curfew was lifted briefly on Saturday afternoon to allow people to run essential errands, but otherwise people have been ordered to stay at home and all gatherings and demonstrations have been banned.

The government has also imposed a communications blackout, blocking all internet and social media access from Thursday night. While the government does not release official figures on deaths and injuries, local media have estimated that thousands have been injured and the death toll has risen to 115.

The US has asked its citizens not to go to Bangladesh

The United States has recommended that its citizens not travel to Bangladesh and has allowed non-emergency government employees and family members to leave voluntarily, given the ongoing civil unrest in the South Asian country.

The development comes a day after the US issued a new travel advisory for Bangladesh, urging Americans to reconsider their travel to the conflict-torn country.

Authorities in Bangladesh imposed a strict curfew across the country and military personnel patrolled parts of the capital to prevent further violence after days of clashes over the allocation of government jobs left more than 40 people dead and hundreds injured.

The US State Department has raised the travel advisory for Bangladesh to Level 4 – 'Do Not Travel'.

“Do not travel to Bangladesh due to civil unrest, crime, and terrorism,” the State Department said, adding that “the Department allows non-emergency U.S. government employees and family members to voluntarily travel.”

“Bangladesh government has declared a curfew in all of Bangladesh and ordered everyone to stay indoors. The Bangladesh Army has been deployed across the country to reinforce the police. Telecommunication has been disrupted in Dhaka and across the country. Due to the security situation, there may be delays in the provision of regular consular services,” the advisory said.

The U.S. State Department has said that most of the criminal activity in Bangladesh's major cities includes robberies, burglaries, assaults and illegal drug trafficking, but there are no indications that foreigners are being targeted because of their nationality.