Dhaka  - Authorities in Bangladesh on Thursday urged mutineers within the country's splintered military to lay down their arms as a deadline approached to end a violent confrontation between paramilitary soldiers and their commanders that left at least 50 people dead, officials said.

Dhaka  - Bangladeshi paramilitary border troops began surrendering their weapons early Thursday, ending a 19-hour standoff that left at least 50 people dead at the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters, a government minister said.

The mutiny began Wednesday morning at an annual meeting to allow soldier to air their grievances to officers, sources inside the headquarters said. The enlisted men, upset over a pay dispute, took the officers hostage.

Dhaka  - The death toll from day-long shootings by rebel troops of Bangladesh paramilitary border forces against their commanders inside the Bangladesh Rifles
(BDR) headquarters rose to five with two more deaths reported in hospitals Wednesday, officials said.

Hospital authorities said two of the dead were mid-ranking officers of the Bangladesh Army and three were civilians.

Dhaka  -At least three people were killed and more than a dozen injured as Bangladeshi paramilitary border troops rebelled against their commanders on Wednesday.

One civilian and two army officers were killed and 14 other people injured in the fighting which stopped after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed announced a general amnesty for the rebel troops.

Dhaka- At least two people were killed and 14 injured as heavy small arms and mortar fire erupted inside the central Dhaka headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) on Wednesday, officials and witnesses said.

Regular army troops attempting to enter the headquarters of the paramilitary border troops were fired on and turned away by the soldiers inside the compound.

Dhaka, Feb 25: One person was killed and six others were injured after a fierce gun battle broke out between officers and personnel inside the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) here on Wednesday.

Official sources confirmed that a mutiny has taken place, and there were unconfirmed reports that the chief of the BDR, Major General Shakil Ahmed, had been killed.

According to the sources, the mutiny coincided with a meeting of senior Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) officers at the Pilkhana area headquarters.