DHAKA — Hundreds of Bangladeshi protesters smashed down buildings connected to ousted former leader Sheikh Hasina on Thursday, hours after students with excavators began demolishing a museum to her father.
The museum and former home of Hasina's late father, Bangladesh's first president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, had been set on fire last year during the student-led revolution that ended her 15 years of autocratic rule.On Wednesday night, six months to the day since Hasina fled by helicopter to old ally India on Aug. 5, crowds carrying hammers and metal rods began beating down the walls of the building in the capital Dhaka.
Prothom Alo, the largest Bengali daily, reported crowds used government-owned excavators to smash down a building owned by Hasina's family in the city of Khulna.In the western city of Kushtia, protesters vandalized the house of a leader of Hasina's Awami League party, Mahbubul Alam Hanif.In Chittagong, protesters held a torch procession and smashed a mural of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
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