
Bangladesh’s prime minister resigned and fled the country on Monday, as thousands of protesters stormed and ransacked her official residence after weeks of deadly demonstrations against her government.
A plane carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina landed at a military airfield near New Delhi, India, on Monday, after Hasina was seen departing Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, in a Bangladeshi Air Force C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, India’s ANI news agency reported. General Waker uz Zaman, the head of Bangladesh’s army, announced Hasina’s resignation in a televised address to the nation and declared that an interim government would be formed by the military after consultation with major political parties and the country’s largely ceremonial president.