Dhaka, Jan. 29 -- Deadly pre-election violence left a leader of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party dead and dozens of others injured in Bangladesh's northern Sherpur district on Wednesday, police said.
"The Jamaat leader was among those injured in the violence and suffered serious head injuries," Md Kamrul Islam, superintendent of police in Sherpur district, told journalists. "We later learned that he died around 10 pm while undergoing treatment at a hospital."According to the police official, the violence broke out in the afternoon during a political event in the Sherpur-3 parliamentary constituency, where candidates from several parties, including Jamaat-e-Islami and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, were present. The clash erupted fol...