{"id":60998,"date":"2024-01-06T18:47:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T09:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/06\/bangladesh-four-killed-in-suspected-train-arson-amid-election-tensions"},"modified":"2024-01-07T00:47:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T15:47:28","slug":"bangladesh-four-killed-in-suspected-train-arson-amid-election-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60998","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh: polling booths set alight on eve of general elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four people also killed in suspected arson attack on a train, which police say was aimed at scaring people before vote<\/p>\n<p>Polling booths have been set on fire in Bangladesh on the eve of general elections.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday four people, including two children, died in an apparent arson attack on a train in Bangladesh. Police said they had arrested seven people in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/06\/bangladesh-four-killed-in-suspected-train-arson-amid-election-tensions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four people also killed in suspected arson attack on a train, which police say was aimed at scaring people before votePolling booths have been set on fire in Bangladesh on the eve of general elections.On Friday four people, including two children, died&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61004,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60998\/revisions\/61004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}