1.   He walked to the local polling centre to cast his vote.

2.   He said the government itself announced that polling centres were well secured after deploying thousands of security forces.

3.   However the national electoral council ignored their decision and ballots with their names on were distributed to polling centres.

4.   If the population continues to flee, Makeni could be left as the only polling centre in the region.

5.   In Chittagong, troops were called in at a suburban polling centre after several crude bombs went off nearby, but there were no casualties or damage.

6.   In Chandanaish, a minority Hindu community in southeastern Chittagong, voters alleged intimidation by the BNP, but many turned up at polling centres.

7.   In the strikebound port of Chittagong, fresh anti-poll violence left one person dead, several others wounded and a polling centre ablaze.

8.   Alam said the observers would visit different polling centres and monitor the electoral process independently, with the assistance of local administration.

9.   Another bomb was defused by the police at a school building which had been coverted into a polling centre.

10.   Authorities had called Sunday on all available lawyers and baliffs to report to polling centres lacking supervisors.