Bangladesh PM Hasina resigns after protests, has left the country - Local media reports

Sheikh Hasina

Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. FILE| AFP

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned on Monday and fled the country, multiple sources said, as more people were killed in some of the worst violence since the birth of the South Asian nation more than five decades ago.

Army chief General Waker-Us-Zaman said in a televised address that Hasina 76, had left the country and that an interim government would be formed.