Bangladesh Crisis In Photos: What’s Left of Dhaka After Ex-PM Sheikh Hasina Fled The Country

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(Photo Credit: Saif bin Ayub, Dhaka-based journalist)

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.

(Photo Credit: Saif bin Ayub, Dhaka-based journalist)

After the day of unrest, students were seen manning the Capital’s roads in the absence of traffic police on 6 August.

(Photo Credit: Saif bin Ayub, Dhaka-based journalist)

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.

(Photo Credit: Saif bin Ayub, Dhaka-based journalist)

Protesters set fire to Bangabandhu Bhaban at Dhanmondi 32 in the capital. Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, lived in this house.

(Photo Credit: Saif bin Ayub, Dhaka-based journalist)

What remains of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s house in Dhaka on Tuesday 6 August.

(Photo Credit: Saif bin Ayub, Dhaka-based journalist)

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.

(Photo Credit: Saif bin Ayub, Dhaka-based journalist)

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.)

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