Twenty-four hours after former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left the country, the streets of Dhaka are in rubble. A police station was burnt in Mohammadpur, Dhaka.
After the day of unrest, students were seen manning the Capital’s roads in the absence of traffic police on 6 August.
On Tuesday, 6 August, there were no traffic police on most of Dhaka’s streets. Students were seen at the road junctions controlling the vehicles.
Protesters set fire to Bangabandhu Bhaban at Dhanmondi 32 in the capital. Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, lived in this house.
What remains of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s house in Dhaka on Tuesday 6 August.
Salman F Rahman co-founded Yellow (a brand of Beximco Group), the private industry and investment adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. His showroom was torched during the protest in Dhaka.
Angry protestors set fire to the central office of Awami League after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had left the country.
(Saif bin Ayyub is a Dhaka-based journalist. In his ten-year journalism career, he has worked in several national dailies and is currently a multimedia journalist.)
