At least 25 people have died in Bangladesh including a journalist in clashes between police and students protesting over government job quotas, according to report's from the international media until  London time on Thursday afternoon.

Ten people died in clashes with police in the capital Dhaka today - the highest toll in a single day so far - including a bus driver whose body was brought to a hospital with a bullet wound to his chest, a rickshaw-puller and three students, officials said.

Hundreds more were injured as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up protesters who torched vehicles, police posts and other establishments, witnesses told to Daily Mail reporter.

A journalist was killed while covering a clash between the police and protesting students demanding quota reform in government jobs at Jatrabari in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, on Thursday. The deceased is Mehedi Hasan, a reporter for the Dhaka Times.Dhaka Times editor Ariufur Rahman Dolon told,Mehedi’s body was now kept in Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Police clashed Thursday with student protesters attempting to impose a "complete shutdown" in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, following days of violent confrontations during demonstrations over a system of allocating government jobs.

Students have been demonstrating for weeks against a quota system for government jobs they say favours allies of the ruling party.

The protests have escalated since violence broke out between protesters, police and pro-government student activists on the campus of Dhaka University on Monday.

Six people were killed on Tuesday, leading the government to ask universities across the country to close and police to raid the main opposition party's headquarters.

 Authorities shut down all public and private universities indefinitely on Wednesday and sent riot police and the Border Guard paramilitary force to university campuses.

The nationwide protests have been fuelled by high unemployment among the youth. Nearly a fifth of Bangladesh's 170 million population is out of work or education.

According to a Sky News report,Bangladesh's law minister, Anisul Huq, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had asked him to talk to the protesters.