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Bangladesh poll booths burn on election eve, as train arson kills four

IndiaTimes Saturday, 6 January 2024
Polling booths were set ablaze in Bangladesh on the eve of Sunday's general elections, while four people, two children among them, were killed in a train fire that the government decried as arson targeting democratic values. Friday's fire broke out at about 9 p.m. injuring eight passengers as it spread to four compartments of the Benapole Express headed for the capital, Dhaka. "The timing of this tragedy, just a day before the election ... shows an absolute intention to hinder the festivity, safety and security of the democratic processes of the country," Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen said.
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On the eve of Bangladesh's general elections, polling booths burned, and a train fire, termed arson by the government, left four dead, including two children. Amid heightened tensions, the main opposition, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), called for a poll boycott, initiating a nationwide strike....

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