21.   Other flaws included international observers not being present at all the polling centres when votes were counted.

22.   Police said League polling agent Ismail Hossain was shot dead inside a polling centre in Sandwip Island and two militias who tried to resist the attackers were injured.

23.   The commission said the troops would guard polling centres and voters and help other security forces to protect officials.

24.   The electoral commission chairman said that at most a third of registered voters had cast ballots at this particular polling centre in the three days of voting.