DHAKA (Reuters) - Security was tightened in the Bangladeshi capital on Friday as Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia prepared to hand over power to a caretaker authority, after some 100 people were injured in clashes between political rivals.
Khaleda is due to hand over power to the interim authority on Saturday at the end of her five-year rule. The opposition vowed a countrywide protest if Khaleda did not reconsider her choice of a caretaker chief to supervise parliamentary elections in January.
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