A villager was killed and at least 60 others injured in violence over Saturday's polling in 164 unions for electing new local councils.
According to reports reaching the capital, the violence took place Friday night as well as during the polling.
Earlier, 30 people were killed in violence in the second phase of the staggered union parishad elections, which began on May 31, amid stray clashes, intimidation and snatching of ballot boxes. The elections are set to end on July 5.
According to the Election Commission 52 unions would go to polls today.
New Age Correspondent in Pabna reported that 40-year old Raja Ali Mollah, a Jamaat member was hacked to death while his nephew Balek Mollah was critically injured in the village Nikarhata in Ishwardi upazila in Pabna Friday night.
Pabna district Jamaat chapter secretary Abu Taleb Mandal said Raja was working for Jamaat backed candidate Amjad Hossain at Muladuli union ignoring pressure from the Awmi League backed candidate Selim Uddin Malitha.
A case was filed with Ishwardi police station in this regard.
United News of Bangladesh reports from Shariatpur, at least 15 people were injured in separate clashes between the supporters of chairman elect and the defeated chairman and member candidates in Damudya upazila on Friday.
Police said supporters of chairman-elect Dulal Madbor attacked the supporters of defeated chairman candidate Abdul Haque in the village Malgaon in Islampur union leaving four people injured.
Earlier, supporters of defeated member candidate attacked the supporters of newly elected member in the village Tarashimulia in the upazila, leaving at least 11 people injured, who admitted to hospitals and clinics.
New Age correspondent in Savar reported that a mobile court, led by Savar Upazila Nirbahi Officer Jahid Hasen Panir, fined 25 candidates for violating the election code of conduct ahead of the polls at Ashulia in Savar upazila in Dhaka.
Of them, ten are contesting for the office of chairman while 15 for membership (male and female).
The mobile court realised Tk 1, 55,000 in fines from Friday to Saturday.
Source : New Age
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