Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stepped down and fled the country on Monday as a group of protestors defied a military curfew to storm her official residence, escalating nationwide opposition to her leadership sparked by her administration’s quota system for public jobs.
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Local media aired footage of Hasina and her sister Rehana fleeing the national capital Dhaka onboard a military helicopter; BBC Bangla reports suggest she is flying to the Indian state of Tripura.
Bangladesh’s military chief Gen. Waker-uz-Zaman addressed the country and urged calm, adding he would seek the Bangladeshi president’s counsel on forming an interim government.
Zaman also promised a thorough investigation into the security forces' crackdown on protests after nearly three hundred demonstrators were killed—further agitating protestors.
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Passersby look at a burnt vehicle along a street amid anti-government protests in Dhaka.
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