Bangladeshi Prime Minister Resigns and Flees to India after Weeks of Deadly Protests

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.