Dhaka  - Authorities in Bangladesh Friday beefed up security at the parliament building and its premises following last week's troop mutiny in central Dhaka that left 71 people, including scores of military officers, dead.

"We have also asked the security agencies to improve the entire security system for parliament," Abdus Shahid, the chief whip of Bangladesh parliament told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa after a special meeting with the top security officials.

The meeting, headed by Speaker Abdul Hamid commissioned an 11- member body to review the present security arrangements and recommend longer-term actions to ensure protection of country's parliament.

The parliament's decision came a day after the Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina Wazed, calling last week's massacre inside the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters a conspiracy against the country's nascent democracy.

Bangladesh returned to democracy barely two months ago through its landmark late-December elections, ending two years rule of a military-backed government.

Bangladesh's parliament building was the target of an arson attack in April 2006. dpa