Rapid Action Battalion have detained actress Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed for spreading rumours on the social media over the ongoing protests demanding safer roads.

“She was picked up from Dhaka’s Uttara on Friday night and taken to the RAB-1 office for quizzing,” RAB Additional Director General (ADG) Col Anwar Latif Khan told Bangla Tribune.

Earlier in the day, the actress went live on Facebook, when she claimed four students were killed in capital's Jigatala in attack by ruling party supporters.

The rumours triggered a clash between protesters and AL activists, which continued for hours turning a large swathe of Jigatala into a battlefield.

In her video, Nawshaba urged people to save the agitating students.

When Bangla Tribune reached the actress after her video caused a stir on internet. Nawshaba admitted that she did not witness the incidents of deaths in person.

“I went on live after I was informed of the deaths over phone,” said the actress.