Violence has been reported in Bangladesh, where 120 million people are scheduled to cast their votes in a general election that has ended in a foregone conclusion.
Authorities said there were a total of 18 arson attacks, including 10 on polling stations, in the past 48 hours.
Friday, Four people were killed, including one child When a passenger train heading towards the capital, Dhaka, caught fire.
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Four dead after fire on Bangladesh train
A total of 120 million people are eligible to vote in Sunday's elections, which will give Sheikh Hasina a fifth term, her fourth in a row.
The 76-year-old will be the country's longest-serving head of state Bangladeshthe date.
The main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, led by Khaleda Zia, boycotted the elections after demanding that Hasina step down to make way for a transitional government that could organize fair elections.
Their call was met with a severe government crackdown, which led to the killing of at least 11 BNP members and the arrest of tens of thousands by security forces during protests last year.
Bangladesh's national parliament, the Jatiya Sangsad, includes 350 representatives, 300 of whom will be elected in Sunday's elections.
The remaining fifty seats are reserved for women chosen by the ruling party or coalition government.
The election result will be announced on Monday, although no one doubts the identity of the winner.
A woman holds her baby while voting
The ruling party, the Awami League, has dominated the country's political scene for decades.
Ms Hasina, the daughter of the country's founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has been praised for making her $416bn (£327bn) economy one of the world's fastest growing.
It also received international praise for sheltering nearly a million Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in neighboring Myanmar.
Bangladesh is one of the largest exporters of ready-made garments, and garments account for more than 80% of the country's exports.
Ms. Hasina campaigned on her track record of modernizing and improving the lives of more than four million garment workers, most of whom are women.
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina casts her vote in Dhaka. Pic: AP Photo/Altaf Qadri
However, the pandemic has halted the growth of the clothing industry, and rising fuel costs due to the Russo-Ukrainian war have put significant pressure on the economy, depleting foreign exchange reserves and weakening the local currency.
Bangladesh is also experiencing a cost-of-living crisis, which sparked violent protests last year, before the first review of the International Monetary Fund's $4.7bn (£3.7bn) bailout took place in December.
Ms. Hasina's government has faced allegations of being authoritarian, rigging elections, suppressing people's votes, and targeting opposition parties.
Awami League campaign posters on a street in the capital
Human Rights Watch condemned the arrests of opposition members last year and said the government's “authoritarian crackdown will jeopardize future economic cooperation” with other countries.
The United States has also previously raised human rights concerns and imposed sanctions on two Bangladeshi security officials over alleged extrajudicial killings.
Opposition leader Zia has been under house arrest for more than two years on corruption charges, which she denies.
Her son Tariq Rahman, the party's acting president, is in exile in London. In August, he was sentenced to nine years in prison for amassing illicit wealth, but he did not appear in court for sentencing.
