DHAKA: Police in Bangladesh have gone on strike seeking security after over 450 police stations were attacked by protesters following Sheikh Hasina\’s resignation and escape to India on August 5.
Bangladesh Police Service Association in a statement said that they would not resume work untill all their personnel were provided security. It appealed to the protesters not to target the police, adding the problem was not with the police but with the political leadership of the country.
According to media reports, police were not seen in the capital city. There were also no traffic police personnel and protesting students were regulating movement of vehicles on roads.
President Mohammed Shahabuddin’s office also announced that the leader of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Begum Khaleda Zia, a former prime minister who had feuded with Hasina for decades, had been freed from house arrest.