The death toll from weeks of political violence in Bangladesh passed 100 on Monday, when police found four bullet-riddled bodies in the capital Dhaka.

Police said the four men were lynched after they were found carrying petrol bombs, frequently used in opposition protests.

Bangladesh's war crimes tribunal ordered the execution of a senior Islamist leader Wednesday after convicting him of atrocities during the country's 1971 independence war, triggering violence outside the court.

Three Molotov cocktails thrown by suspected anti-government activists exploded outside the courthouse in central Dhaka as Abdus Subhan, a vice president of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party, Jamaat-Islami, was found guilty of murder, genocide and torture.

One person has died and at least five more are missing after an overcrowded boat carrying at least 100 Muslim pilgrims sank in Bangladesh, police said.

The boat was heading to a Sufi shrine for an annual gathering when it capsized on a river estuary in the south of the country.

Dozens of protesters marched in Yangon Wednesday against a law giving voting rights to Myanmar's temporary citizens, including hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya, as parliament's speaker referred the fiery issue to a constitutional tribunal.

Controversy over people holding limited citizenship rights in Myanmar's complex national identification system spilled onto the streets after a bill granting them the right to vote in referendums was enacted on Tuesday.

Bangladesh has ordered long-distance buses off the roads at night after two petrol bomb attacks killed 16 people in a worsening outbreak of political unrest in the country.

The attacks were the deadliest to hit the country since the latest outbreak of violence began in early January, and have shocked the country.

Bangladesh's powerful military has denied plotting to overthrow the government to end spiralling political unrest, warning the media against speculating on any army role in the crisis.

The military said it respected the constitution and laws of Bangladesh which has witnessed at least 19 military-backed coups and been ruled by two military dictators since independence in 1971.

New firebomb attacks killed another nine people in Bangladesh, police said Saturday, amid growing international calls for an end to the spiralling political violence.

At least three people burned to death when suspected anti-government protesters petrol-bombed a truck in the southern town of Gournadi on Saturday morning, local police chief Sazzad Hossain told Agence France Presse.

Two more opposition activists were killed in a new bout of political violence in Bangladesh Friday after the U.S. voiced grave concern about the unrest and slammed a spate of "unconscionable" firebombings.

Police shot dead an Islamist protester from the Jamaat-e-Islami party and wounded two more after they threw a molotov cocktail at a police van in Rajshahi, northwest of Dhaka, after midnight Friday, local police chief Alamgir Hossain told Agence France Presse.

A police officer and three others on Thursday became the latest casualties of a wave of violence sweeping Bangladesh as the opposition continued a deadly campaign to topple Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

A truck was firebombed in the northern city of Bogra, killing the driver and his passenger, as activists enforced month-long transport blockade, police chief Saifuzzaman Chowdhury told Agence France Presse.

Anti-government protesters firebombed a bus full of sleeping passengers in eastern Bangladesh on Tuesday, killing seven in spiraling political unrest aimed at toppling Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Several passengers were also critically injured in the attack in the town of Chauddagram which was blamed on activists from the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led by two-time former premier Khaleda Zia.