A 28-year-old tea worker was reportedly found from a garden in northeastern Bangladesh on the eve of the election, police said on Wednesday. Residents said deep wounds were visible on his body, and his hands and legs were tied. One of them told The Daily Star that Ratan may have been killed elsewhere and the body later dumped in the garden. Police said they have provided a list of risk-prone polling centres to the EC, which showed that out of 2,131 polling centres in Dhaka, 1,614 were risk-prone. In capital Dhaka, police arrested a Jamaat leader over buying votes while crude bombs were exploded near seven polling centres in southwestern Gopalganj hours before voting.

Source: The Telegraph February 12, 2026 06:12 UTC