President Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Bangladesh to a red-carpet welcome and 21-gun salute even as 14 people were killed in fresh clashes Sunday over the death sentence given to a top Islamist opposition leader. Mukherjee, on his first trip abroad as India’s head of state, was received by President Zillur Rahman at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Welcome: Bangladeshi pedestrians walk past a poster of President Pranab Mukherjee in Dhaka yesterday. His visit coincided with the strike called by the Jamaat-e-Islami protesting their leader’s death sentence. Pic/AFP