Mithil Aggarwal is a Hong Kong-based reporter/producer for NBC News.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and left the country on Monday, local media reported, a day after nearly 100 people were killed in clashes with the police as protesters demanded she step down. Video showed protesters flowing into the prime minister’s residence in Dhaka, the capital, which had been left unguarded. Reports of her resignation were met with cheers by others gathered on the streets. Army chief Gen.
“When you’re on the streets and you look around and see thousands of people of your age, your father’s age, your sister’s age, you feel invincible,” Monorom Polok, 25, said in a telephone interview from Dhaka as he prepared to join the march on Monday. Sunday’s death toll was the highest since the protests began over a controversial preferential quota system for public sector jobs.
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