Two of those killed were beaten to death while guarding polling stations in northern districts which bore the brunt of the violence.
"We've seen thousands of protestors attack polling booths and our personnel at a number of locations with Molotov cocktails and petrol bombs," Syed Abu Sayem, police chief of the northern Bogra district, told AFP.
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