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According to Xinhua News Agency on August 5, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned.

The day before, clashes broke out across Bangladesh as protesters demanded Hasina's resignation. According to Reuters, Hasina and her sister have left the prime minister's residence and headed for a safe house. Sources said the two would travel to West Bengal, India.

According to reports, tens of thousands of protesters engaged in fierce clashes with police and government security forces on August 4, local time, resulting in at least 91 deaths and hundreds of injuries. Protesters have blocked major highways in the country over the past two days and launched "non-cooperation" demonstrations in various places.

According to local media reports, at least 11 people were killed and dozens injured in several violent clashes in the capital Dhaka. Three-way clashes between protesters, police and Hasina supporters occurred in Munsiganj in the central region, Sirajganj in the northwest, and Pabna in the northeast, resulting in the destruction of a large number of police stations and government agencies and varying degrees of casualties.

Relevant information shows that protests across Bangladesh have been going on since July. The demonstrations were initially to protest against the preferential quota system for public sector jobs, and later gradually evolved into a national movement against Prime Minister Hasina's economic management policies.

At least 150 people were killed, thousands injured and tens of thousands arrested by the government in violence sparked by protests last month. After the Supreme Court was forced to cancel most quotas on July 21, protesters continued to demand the government be held accountable for the violence and justice for the families of the victims.

Currently, the government has announced a national holiday from the 5th to the 7th, and will impose an indefinite curfew from the evening of August 4th.

It is worth noting that the government security forces played a very delicate role in this conflict. Since the demonstrations began in July, the government has deployed troops and other security forces across the country. However, in the conflict on the 4th, the government troops stopped the protesters in some places, while in other places they protected the protesters from attacks by Hasina supporters.

On the 4th, the head of the Bangladesh Army, General Waker-uz-Zaman, Chief of Army Staff, convened a meeting of senior military officers and reiterated in a statement issued after the meeting that the military will "uphold the public interest and meet any needs of the country."

Hasina won her fifth term in office in early January, but due to deep political divisions and disputes over the legitimacy of the election, there have been continuous marches and demonstrations.