Bangladesh election violence kills 17 people, police say


  • World
  • Sunday, 30 Dec 2018

Bangladeshi men line up to cast their vote at a polling station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018. People in Bangladesh voted Sunday in parliamentary elections seen as a referendum on what critics call Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's increasingly authoritarian rule, amid complaints from both ruling party and opposition activists of attacks on supporters and candidates. Seventeen people were reportedly killed in election-related violence - AP Photo/Anupam Nath

DHAKA (Reuters) - Election-related violence killed 17 people in Bangladesh on Sunday, a police spokesman said, including seven people from the ruling party and five from the opposition alliance.

Spokesman Sohel Rana said more than 20 people were injured.

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