Cheering protesters stormed Bangladesh's PM Hasina's palace on Monday after she resigned and fled by helicopter.
Cheering protesters stormed Hasina's palace on Monday after she fled, marking the climax of more than a month of deadly anti-government protests.Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned and was forced to flee the capital by helicopter on Monday amid a surge of angry protesters calling for her resignation, a source close to her told AFP.
Jubilant crowds, waving flags and dancing on top of a tank, flooded the streets of Dhaka on Monday morning. Hundreds then broke through the gates of Hasina’s official residence.Bangladesh’s army chief, Waker-Uz-Zaman, is scheduled to address the nation on Monday afternoon, a military spokesman told AFP, without providing further details. In the meantime, he said Monday he will form an interim government.
“Your duty is to keep our people and our country safe, and to uphold the constitution,” her son, US-based Sajeeb Wazed Joy, said in a post on Facebook. “It means don’t allow any unelected government to come into power for one minute; it is your duty.”
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