DHAKA — Cheering protesters stormed Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's palace on Monday after she fled, the culmination of more than a month of deadly anti-government protests.
DHAKA — Cheering protesters stormed Bangladesh i Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's palace on Monday after she fled, the culmination of more than a month of deadly anti-government protests.Jubilant-looking crowds waved flags, with some dancing on top of a tank, in the streets of Dhaka 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.
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaks during an interview at a hotel in New York on Sept. 22, 2022. AFP FILE PHOTOThis comes after a source close to Hasina, 76, told Agence France-Presse that she had left the palace for a 'safer place.'Bangladesh's army chief Waker-Uz-Zaman is expected to address the nation on Monday afternoon, a military spokesman told AFP without giving further details.
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