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Bangladesh PM Flees Country Amid Protests
Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Monday fled the country following over a month of anti-government protests.
EKO HOT BLOG gathered that Hasina, who has ruled since 2009, is said to have defied weeks of demands for her to resign but ran out of the country amid a brutal day of unrest on Sunday, which allegedly claimed the lives of almost one hundred people.
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The 76-year-old Prime Minister was said to have fled the country by helicopter shortly after protesters had stormed her palace in Dhaka.
“Her security team asked her to leave, but she did not find any time to prepare.
The source adding she left first by motorcade but then was flown out, without saying her destination. “She was later evacuated on a helicopter,” a source close to her said.
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The crowds had waved flags, some dancing on top of a tank in the streets on Monday morning before hundreds broke through the gates of Hasina’s official residence.
The source added that she left first by motorcade but then was flown out, without saying her destination. “She was later evacuated on a helicopter.”
Jubilant looking crowds had waved flags, some dancing on top of a tank in the streets on Monday morning before hundreds broke through the gates of Hasina’s official residence.
Bangladesh’s Channel 24 broadcast images of crowds running into the compound, waving to the camera as they celebrated.
Others smashed statues of Hasina’s father Sheikh Mujibur Rahma, the country’s independence hero.
It was gathered that Bangladesh’s army chief Waker-Uz-Zaman would address the nation on Monday afternoon.
Before the protesters had stormed the compound, Hasina’s son urged the country’s security forces to block any takeover from her 15-year rule.
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