<p>New Delhi: Deposed Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina has said she and her younger sister Sheikh Rehana escaped death by just 20-25 minutes on August 5 last year when her Awami League government was toppled in a student-led mass uprising.</p>.<p>In a brief audio note released by her party on its Facebook page, Hasina expressed her gratitude to God for saving her life.</p>.<p>She also recalled two previous attempts on her life she narrowly escaped and said she believed that God had saved her life as part of a divine design to get something greater done by her.</p>.<p>"We escaped death by just 20-25 minutes. I feel surviving the killings on August 21, surviving the large bomb in Kotalipara, or surviving on August 5, 2024, there must be a will of Allah, the hand of Allah. Otherwise, I wouldn't have survived this time," she is heard saying in Bangla in the audio clip.</p>.<p>In a trembling voice, the 77-year-old leader accused her political opponents of conspiring to get her killed.</p>.<p>Hasina has been living in India since August 5 last year when she fled Bangladesh following a massive student-led protest that toppled her Awami League's 16-year regime.</p>.<p>"I am suffering, I am without my country, my home, everything has been burned," said Hasina.</p>.Sheikh Hasina’s niece Tulip Siddiq resigns as UK Treasury minister amid graft claims.<p>Hasina survived several attempts on her life including that of the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on a party rally where she was addressing as the opposition leader. Twenty-four people were killed in the attack.</p>.<p>In 2000, Hasina, then the prime minister of Bangladesh, was scheduled to speak at a rally in Kotalipara Upazila, Gopalganj District when police discovered a time bomb weighing 76 Kg 50 feet from the stage.</p>.<p>On August 5 last year, security forces gave her 45 minutes to evacuate her official Ganobhaban residence saying an angry mob was proceeding towards the government establishment and her life was in danger.</p>.<p>Hasina was initially flown to a nearby military air base and later an air force plane carried her along with Rehana to India.</p>.<p>Shortly after she left Ganobhaban, the mob vandalised the premier’s residence and set on fire her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's house-turned-museum at 32 Dhanmondi named after him.</p>
<p>New Delhi: Deposed Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina has said she and her younger sister Sheikh Rehana escaped death by just 20-25 minutes on August 5 last year when her Awami League government was toppled in a student-led mass uprising.</p>.<p>In a brief audio note released by her party on its Facebook page, Hasina expressed her gratitude to God for saving her life.</p>.<p>She also recalled two previous attempts on her life she narrowly escaped and said she believed that God had saved her life as part of a divine design to get something greater done by her.</p>.<p>"We escaped death by just 20-25 minutes. I feel surviving the killings on August 21, surviving the large bomb in Kotalipara, or surviving on August 5, 2024, there must be a will of Allah, the hand of Allah. Otherwise, I wouldn't have survived this time," she is heard saying in Bangla in the audio clip.</p>.<p>In a trembling voice, the 77-year-old leader accused her political opponents of conspiring to get her killed.</p>.<p>Hasina has been living in India since August 5 last year when she fled Bangladesh following a massive student-led protest that toppled her Awami League's 16-year regime.</p>.<p>"I am suffering, I am without my country, my home, everything has been burned," said Hasina.</p>.Sheikh Hasina’s niece Tulip Siddiq resigns as UK Treasury minister amid graft claims.<p>Hasina survived several attempts on her life including that of the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on a party rally where she was addressing as the opposition leader. Twenty-four people were killed in the attack.</p>.<p>In 2000, Hasina, then the prime minister of Bangladesh, was scheduled to speak at a rally in Kotalipara Upazila, Gopalganj District when police discovered a time bomb weighing 76 Kg 50 feet from the stage.</p>.<p>On August 5 last year, security forces gave her 45 minutes to evacuate her official Ganobhaban residence saying an angry mob was proceeding towards the government establishment and her life was in danger.</p>.<p>Hasina was initially flown to a nearby military air base and later an air force plane carried her along with Rehana to India.</p>.<p>Shortly after she left Ganobhaban, the mob vandalised the premier’s residence and set on fire her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's house-turned-museum at 32 Dhanmondi named after him.</p>