Security agencies used batons and fired tear gas on Monday to disperse protesters who tried to demolish the house of deposed premier Sheikh Hasina’s father and Bangladesh’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the capital.

“Several sound grenades were used to disperse the protesters,” Masud Alam, Deputy Commissioner of the Ramna division police, was quoted as saying by the Daily Star newspaper.

The paper reported that several protesters and security personnel were injured during the baton-charge and brick-hurling clashes.

Mujibur Rahman, fondly called Bangabandhu, was killed in a military coup on August 15, 1975, along with most of his family members, including his 10-year-old youngest son, Sheikh Russell.

A large part of Rahman’s private residence, which was turned into a museum, was leve

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