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Violence continued to escalate in Bangladesh amid student protests over government job quota reforms, with local media reporting that more than 10 people were killed in clashes on Thursday. Thousands of protesters clashed with police and ruling party supporters in Dhaka and other parts of the country, torching vehicles, offices, police outposts and targeting state media as they attempted to impose a “complete shutdown” to force their demands to be met, according to reports from across the country. The Bangladesh daily newspaper Prothom Alo reported that at least 11 people were killed – nine in…

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