Amid tight security, tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh have voted in the first phase of local elections. Voters elect candidates to four city corporations and nine municipalities. Monday’s elections are the first polls organised by the country's army-backed interim government since it took power in early 2007.
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Bangladesh has been under a state of emergency since Jan. 11, 2007Image: AP
