Bangladesh elections update: Polling booths torched; schools, trains burned ahead election day
General assembly elections voting begins in Bangladesh on Sunday amid heightened political tensions in the country. The country witnessed a rampant increase in violence in several districts before polling. At least 14 polling centres and two schools in 10 districts of Bangladesh were set on fire between Friday evening and early Saturday hours, reported Dhaka Tribune.
On Friday, a passenger train was set on fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Four people including two children died in the incident. On Saturday, miscreants torched a polling centre in Lalmonirhat’s Hatibandha upazila. Miscreants burned down Sheikh Sundar Masterpara Primary School around 10 pm on Saturday.
Police arrested five people for their links with the burning of a polling centre in Mymensingh on Saturday. However, no person died during the attack, according to the Dhaka Tribune report.
Miscreants are mainly targeting those schools that were supposed to be used as polling centers. Another polling centre was set on fire in Feni and Rajshahi in separate incidents from Thursday night to Friday morning.
In Moulvibazar, the Sabia Government Primary School of Chandighat Union in Sadar upazila was set on fire by arsonists at around 8 pm on Friday. The school was also a polling centre for the Moulvibazar-3 constituency.
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Published: 07 Jan 2024, 08:28 AM IST
