At verkiezingsgeweld in Bangladesh are already seven deaths. The Bangladeshis choose today a new parliament, but the opposition accuses the current majority of the vote to falsify. Monday will be the first results are expected.
According to politiewoordvoerder Abdus Salam tried activists of the opposition during the night ballots to steal at a polling station in Banshkhali, in the south of the country. The police were attacked and opened fire, in which an attacker was killed. In the same district there was another oppositieaanhanger killed in a retaliatory action by pro-government protesters, after one of them was killed.
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At three different places in Brahmanbaria, Cox’s Bazar and Rajshahi, fell a further three killed in violence between the rival groups. In the district of Rangamati in the south-east, died a sympathizer of the ruling Awami League (AL) of prime minister Sheikh Hasina on the way to the hospital as a result of blows to the head by supporters of the opposition. the
In certain places the ballot because of the violence will be suspended. At the elections in 2014, which is boycotted by the opposition, fell almost 20 dead.
Crucial parliamentary elections
The Bangladeshis pull today to the polls for crucial elections. A direct battle between current prime minister Hasina and former prime minister Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) – which added five terms behind the back – is by the imprisonment of that last impossible.
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