{"id":6531,"date":"2024-08-05T15:45:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=6531"},"modified":"2024-08-05T15:45:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T10:00:05","slug":"bangladesh-pm-hasina-quits-and-flees-as-protesters-storm-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/bangladesh-pm-hasina-quits-and-flees-as-protesters-storm-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh PM Hasina quits and flees as protesters storm palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>aljazeera, 5th Aug. Bangladesh\u2019s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reportedly resigned and fled the country in the face of ongoing protests.<\/p>\n<p>The longtime leader of the country has boarded a military helicopter, an aide told Al Jazeera, after crowds ignored a national curfew to storm the prime minister\u2019s palace in Dhaka.<\/p>\n<p>Close to 300 people have died amid weeks of protest the authorities have sought to crush. Following a night of deadly violence that killed close to 100 on Sunday, tension had remained high as protesters called for a march on Dhaka and the army prepared to address the nation.<\/p>\n<p>By early afternoon, however, media reported that the mood on the streets had turned to one of celebration after the news of Hasina\u2019s departure spread.<\/p>\n<p>Chief of Army Staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman has cancelled his planned address and is instead holding talks with major political parties, including the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>aljazeera, 5th Aug. Bangladesh\u2019s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reportedly resigned and fled the country in the face of ongoing protests. The longtime leader of the country has boarded a military helicopter, an aide told Al Jazeera, after crowds ignored a national curfew to storm the prime minister\u2019s palace in Dhaka. Close to 300 people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6534,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531\/revisions\/6534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}