Clashes, Rigging Allegations Mar Bangladesh Poll Amid Thin Turnout

Clashes, Rigging Allegations Mar Bangladesh Poll Amid Thin Turnout
A presiding officer places a voter's thumbprint on the ballot paper before she casts her vote for the general election in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Dec. 30, 2018. Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters
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DHAKA—Clashes between supporters of Bangladesh’s ruling party and its opponents killed at least four people and wounded nearly a dozen on Dec. 30, a government official and police said, as the country voted in a general election marred by claims of vote rigging.

Reuters reporters across the country of 165 million people saw sparse turnout at polling booths in the first fully competitive general election in a decade widely expected to be won by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, giving her a third straight term in office.