Voters queued at polling stations in Myanmar on Sunday to vote in a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it seized power from an elected government,

Under the shadow of civil war and questions over the poll's credibility, ‍voters in Myanmar have cast their ballots in apparently low numbers in a general election.

Security in Yangon, the country’s largest city, had visibly stiffened on Saturday, with armed guards stationed outside polling stations and military trucks patrolling the roads.