Bangladesh elections marred by violence, boycott

Police in Bangladesh shot dead three protesters as suspected opposition activists stabbed an election official to death and set over 100 polling stations ablaze in a very bid to disrupt general elections Sunday that threaten to deepen the crisis within the South Asian nation. The opposition and its allies are boycotting the vote, a move that undermines the legitimacy of the election and makes it unlikely that the polls can stem a wave of political violence that killed a minimum of 275 individuals in 2013.

Police opened fireplace to stop protesters from seizing a polling centre in northern citrus tree district, killing 2 individuals. In a similar incident in neighbouring Nilphamari district, police discharged into concerning 2 dozens of protesters, departure one person dead. Police gave no further details, however Dhaka's Daily Star newspaper aforesaid the 3 men belonged to the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party.
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Elsewhere, police said suspected opposition activists stabbed to death a polling official, and native media rumored that attackers torched additional than 127 faculty buildings across the country in long attacks. The buildings were to be used as polling stations. The option began at eight a.m. but local television stations showed mostly empty polling stations, still wrapped in early morning winter fog. The commission aforesaid polling has been suspended in a minimum of thirty eight centres attributable to attacks by anti-election activists, burning of ballots and election materials.
Much of the capital, Dhaka, has been cut off from the rest of the country in recent weeks, as the opposition has ironed its demands through general strikes and transportation blockades. Civilians have been caught up in the bloodshed, with activists torching vehicles happiness to motorists United Nations agency defy the strikes, resulting in a growing sense of desperation over the political impasse.