THOUSANDS of protesters in Bangladesh took out their anger at exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday by destroying a home belonging to her family in the capital, Dhaka.

The attack was sparked by a speech that Ms Hasina planned to give to supporters from exile in neighbouring India, where she fled last year during a student-led uprising against her 15-year rule. 

The house had been home to Ms Hasina’s late father and Bangladesh independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who declared the country’s formal break from Pakistan in 1971.