Bangladesh, April 20 -- A group identifying itself as the "Islami Bank Victims Customer Coordination Council" staged a counter-programme on Sunday in front of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL), following an earlier human chain organised at the same location by dismissed officials from six banks, including Islami Bank.

Although the dismissed employees had left the area before the customers' pre-announced programme began at around 12:30pm, the sequence of events contributed to a tense atmosphere in the area.

Earlier in the day, from around 10:00am, several thousand dismissed employees from six banks associated with the S Alam Group gathered outside the bank.

A significant number of participants were reportedly from the Patiya area of...