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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and left the country on Monday, ending her 15-year tenure.
Her resignation followed weeks of anti-government violence that resulted in over 300 deaths.
Thousands of protesters stormed her official residence, Ganabhaban, in Dhaka after news broke that Hasina, 76, and her sister, Sheikh Rehana, had fled to a "safe shelter."
Bangladesh's army chief, General Waker-Uz-Zaman, announced that an interim government would take over. He assured that the military would stand down and promised an investigation into the deadly crackdown on student protesters.
As protests escalated in Bangladesh, a mob vandalised Sheikh Hasina's father and former Bangladesh President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman statue in Dhaka.
