Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina resigns and flees country as protesters storm palace

In Pictures: Celebrations and looting on streets of Dhaka

As we have reported, thousands of people have gone out in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka to celebrate the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

But amongst the celebrations, there are reports of looting. Demonstrators breaking into Hasina's official residence and taking furniture with a statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman - Hasina's father - vandalised.

Despite historic ties, India will want to tread carefully

Sheikh Hasina and her family share historic ties with India.

India fought alongside Bangladesh’s freedom leaders in its war for independence from Pakistan in 1971, after which Sheikh Hasina’s father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman became Bangladesh’s first president.

In 1975, after the assassination of her father and most of her family in Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina and her sister were granted political asylum in India for several years.

Across political parties in India, Hasina has found support because the Indian establishment has long seen her as a way of keeping radical Islamist groups out of power in Bangladesh.

• The army chief of Bangladesh says Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned after weeks of unrest. Her aide says she fled the capital, Dhaka, by helicopter.
• In an address to the nation, General Waker-Uz-Zaman also says an interim government will be formed to run the country.
• Thousands of people take to the streets to celebrate, while many storm the prime minister’s official residence.
• Demonstrations that began last month over governmental job quotas had expanded into nationwide unrest.
• Students have been marching on Dhaka to demand justice for some 300 people killed since last month.