Bodies of 29 leaders of the Awami League and their family members were recovered across violence-hit Bangladesh on Tuesday after Sheikh Hasina quit as Prime Minister and left for India amid protests by students over a controversial quota system that spiralled into widespread calls for the 76-year-old leader’s resignation.
At least 10 people were killed in violence in Satkhira after Hasina’s resignation and departure on Monday. Houses and business establishments belonging to several Awami League leaders were vandalised and looted, The Dhaka Tribune reported.In Cumilla, at least 11 people were killed in attacks by mobs. Six people died as a three-storey house of former councillor Mohammad Shah Alam was set on fire by miscreants.Five teenagers were among the 11 bodies that were recovered from the house on Monday night and Tuesday morning.
On Monday, a mob attacked the house of Shah Alam and some people climbed to the third floor of the house, according to eyewitnesses. The mob set fire to the ground floor of the house.
Later, the people who took shelter on the third floor of the house died after inhaling smoke and were burnt to death.
The attack also injured 10 people, of which one of them was undergoing treatment in the ICU.
Meanwhile, four people died after a mob set on fire the house of an MP Shafiqul Islam Shimul on Tuesday. Their bodies were found in several rooms, balconies and roofs of the house.
