When US lawmakers hid in underground tunnels: All you need to know about Capitol Hill violence

The United States on Wednesday witnessed violence after a mob protesting Donald Trump’s defeat violently invaded the US Capitol and plunged Washington into chaos. The US Congress was holding a joint session to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s win when the violence broke out. Curfew has been imposed in Washington DC to disperse the protesters.

While President Donald Trump told his supporters to ‘stay peaceful’, US President-elect Biden called the violence an ‘insurrection’.

Here’s all you need to know about the violence:

• President Donald Trump supporters in hundreds entered the Capitol building on Wednesday in a bid to overturn his election defeat.

• The violence forced US lawmakers to flee the Capitol and disrupted Biden’s certification process. However, the Senate resumed the process more than six hours after the violence.

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• One woman was shot dead, confirmed the police.

• According to reports, the Federal Bureau of Investigation disarmed two suspected explosive devices.

• Twitter, Facebook and Instagram blocked Trump’s accounts after he posted baseless claims about the election.

• Biden called for restoration of “simple decency” and called on Trump to “end to this siege.”

• World leaders and former US presidents, including Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Angela Markel, Narendra Modi condemned the violence.