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On August 5, local time, the Prime Minister's Office in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, was occupied by thousands of protesters, and the cheering crowd rushed into the spacious courtyard.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is the host of the Prime Minister's Office, was no longer there when the crowd broke in.

Hasina, 76, was announced to resign in an address to the nation by Army Chief of Staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman, and an interim government is being formed.

General Zaman said he had held talks with leaders of major political parties, excluding Hasina's long-ruling Awami League, and would soon meet President Mohammad Shahabuddin Chup to discuss the way forward.

Hasina was also photographed preparing to leave Dhaka on a military helicopter. This female politician, who is in her seventies, may not be able to live in her own country for a long time in the future.

According to reports, Hasina's plane landed in Agartala, a city in northeastern India. Her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy told the outside world that his mother left Bangladesh for her own safety at the insistence of her family.

Joy said his mother was "very disappointed that after all her efforts, minorities rose up against her." He also confirmed that Hasina would not try to return to politics.

Meanwhile, the statue of Hasina's father, former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was also "occupied" by protesters, who climbed on the statue and tried to chop off its head with an axe.

When Hasina was only 27 years old (1975), her parents and three brothers were killed by mutinous officers, but she escaped because she was abroad at the time.

Six years later she returned to take the helm of her father's Awami League party, beginning a decade-long struggle that included a lengthy period of house arrest. But Hasina never stopped fighting, becoming prime minister for the first time in 1996 and again in a landslide in 2008. Supporters credit her with helping to bring prosperity to Bangladesh, which is not an exaggeration, with the country growing at an average annual rate of more than 6% since 2009.

Faced with the growing protests, Hasina is clearly disappointed. "For 15 years, I have built this country. What else have I not done for the people?" she said in an interview last month.

Despite this, she has been accused of being "increasingly dictatorial" and has displeased many people, especially after the announcement of the "employment quota" policy, which has caused shocks that have lasted for weeks and has caused the deaths of more than 300 people.

Although the protesters who stormed the Prime Minister's residence were under the banner of justice, what they did was not so glorious.

They moved furniture and interior decorations out of the Prime Minister's Office, and some took away pets and even clothes. Some people even fought over the same item.

Another college student shared a short video on social media, in which he "occupied" Hasina's bed and showed the furnishings in the bedroom. In fact, apart from the large space, Hasina's room is quite simple, not as magnificent as they thought.