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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and left the country on Monday, media reports 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. 

Hasina has to resign as army chief Gen Wakar-uz-Zamn is due to address the nation shortly. 

It is teported that Sheikh Hasina and her sister have been shifted to a safe shelter, local media reported. 

"You see, the situation is very volatile. What is happening, I myself don’t know," Law Minister Anisul Huq told Reuters. 

Student activists had called for a march to the capital Dhaka on Monday in defiance of a nationwide curfew to press Hasina to resign, a day after deadly clashes across the country killed nearly 100 people. 

As protesters began to march in some places, armoured personnel carriers and troops patrolled the streets of the capital, Reuters TV showed. There was little civilian traffic, barring a few motorcycles and three-wheel taxis.