Bid to delay election turns violent
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From Times Wire Reports
Thousands of protesters fought riot police in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, throwing stones, bricks and homemade bombs as a blockade intended to delay Jan. 22 elections stretched into a third day, witnesses and reports said.
Police used truncheons and fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters who tried to overrun barbed-wire barricades erected around the downtown presidential palace.
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