Dhaka, Feb. 13 -- Police have used baton charges and water cannons to disperse a group of job seekers who had their appointments to government primary schools as assistant teachers scrapped by a High Court order even after they announced they would not "block the road".

The dismissed applicants blocked Dhaka's Shahbagh intersection on Thursday afternoon.

After 2pm, the police tried to remove them from the thoroughfare, swinging batons and blasting water cannons. Despite the efforts of the police, the protesters continued to block the area.

Police then detained several of them, while some were injured in the incident.

Talukder Pias, a protest leader and applicant from Nagarkanda Upazila in Faridpur, said: "When we blocked Shahbagh in t...