Agitating people on Monday vandalised and set fire to different establishments, including official residences of the prime minister and chief justice, soon after Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister amid massive protests across the country.
Clashes between the police and mobs and arson left at least nine people dead and dozens injured across the country after the fall of the government on Monday.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Jashore reported that a five-star hotel Zaber International was set on fire at 3:00pm in Jashore town,聽 minutes after the prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 resignation was announced, killing nine people and injuring at least 50 others.
The hotel is owned by ruling Awami League Jashore district unit general secretary Shaheen Chaklader.
Confirming the deaths from the attack, Jahsore General Hospital duty doctor Saifur Rahman said that 35 were admitted to the hospital with burn injuries.
In Dhaka, the people opened gates of Ganabhaban, the official residence of the prime minister, and entered inside the residence at about 3:00pm soon after Sheikh Hasina left Ganabhaban for a safer place.
A group of people looted almost everything, including furniture from Ganabhaban and carried out vandalism there.
Besides, a group of miscreants also looted and vandalised the official residence of chief justice Obaidul Hassan in the capital.
A number of police stations also came under attacks, vandalism, and fire by the agitating people in the capital and elsewhere in the country, while incidents of looting also took place at some police stations.聽
The people also allegedly vandalised and torched offices of the Awami League and its associate organisations across the country, while incidents of attacks on the houses and establishments owned by AL people across the country were also reported.
The mob also attacked police headquarters and the Dhaka South City Corporation in the city.
Angry mobs also went on a rampage at different television offices, including Ekattor Television, ATN Bangla, and My TV, and looted valuables from the offices. Even, some TV channels were forced to stop airing programmes amid the situation.
They set fire to the Awami League president鈥檚 office at Dhanmondi, AL central office on Bangabandhu Avenue, Bangabandhu Bhaban, known as the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi-32, AL Dhaka district office, Sudha Sadan at Dhanmondi, Jatiya Party central office at Kakrail, Police headquarters, Dhaka south city corporation building, Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Headquarters, and Rajshahi Nagar Bhaban.
Angry people also vandalised inside Sangsad Bhaban, the houses of AL lawmakers, ministers across the country, including houses of home minister Asaduzzaman Khan at Dhanmondi, food minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder, and lawmakers Mashrafe Bin Mortaza and Shamim Osman.
Sheikh Hasina resigned early Monday and left the country for Agartala in India via helicopter.
The figure of deaths and injured was updated as of 10:30pm Monday.聽
In Narsigndi, at least 29 people were injured in police firing when a mob tried to attack the superintendent of police office in the district town at about 6:00pm, 抖阴精品 correspondent in the district reported.
Of the injured, Jannatul Ferdous, 17, Wasib, 30, and Sohag, 25, were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in critical condition, Narsingdi district hospital supervisor ANM Mizanur Rahman confirmed.