12 killed, 27 injured in Iraq attacks
March 4th, 2010 - 11:09 pm ICT by IANSBaghdad, March 4 (DPA) At least 12 people were killed and 27 injured Thursday in separate attacks in Iraq, amid a spike in violence ahead of country’s March 7 parliamentary elections.
Five were killed and 10 injured when a rocket grenade fell near a polling station in al-Horreya area, northwestern Baghdad, a source said.
Earlier, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives belt near another polling station in Bab al-Moazzam area in central Baghdad killing seven people and injuring 17 more.
In the northern city of Mosul, nine people were injured when unidentified gunmen detonated the house of a candidate, a local police source told DPA.
Sheikh Nawaf Saud Zayd’s house was located in al-Yarmouk area, in western Mosul. “There was no one home when the blast took place, the injured people are the Sheikh’s neighbours,” added the source.
Thousands of police, soldiers, prisoners and hospitalised Iraqis started casting their votes Thursday in the first day of special voting procedures for the parliamentary elections. General voting is expected to begin Sunday.
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