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(FILES) Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaks during a joint press statement with the Japanese Prime Minister at the latter's official residence in Tokyo on April 26, 2023. Thousands of Bangladeshi protesters stormed the palace of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on August 5, 2024, with a source telling AFP she had fled mass demonstrations demanding she quit. (Photo by KIMIMASA MAYAMA / POOL / AFP)
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the capital by helicopter on Monday without time to prepare as vast crowds of angry protesters demanded she quit, a source close to her told AFP.
"Her security team asked her leave, she did not find any time to prepare", the source said, adding she left first by motorcade but then was flown out, without saying her destination. "She was later evacuated on a helicopter."