Dhaka, Feb. 14 -- Police once again used force, including baton and water cannon, on Thursday to disperse scrapped primary schoolteachers as they staged a sit-in blocking the city's busy Shahbagh intersection.

The lawmen also took away some of the protesters for "interrogation" at the nearby police station.

They continued their protest demanding the reinstatement of their cancelled appointments as assistant teachers in government primary schools.

Eyewitnesses and police sources said several hundred protesters, who had been declared invalid by the court as assistant teachers in government primary schools, blocked the Shahbagh intersection around noon.

At that time, a long traffic tailback formed all around.

The police tried to convinc...