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April 30th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Several attacks have hit different parts of Iraq as Iraqis are voting in parliamentary elections.
On Wednesday, people in Iraq went to the polls to elect a new parliament amid threats by al-Qaeda-linked militants to disrupt the elections by bombings.
In a bomb blast near a polling station in the northern town of Dibs, at least two women lost their lives and five soldiers were wounded.
Reports also said that two mortars landed near voting stations west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
Elsewhere, militants seized a polling station in north of Iraq and exploded the building after evacuating the election staff and voters.
In Kirkuk province, a senior police chief survived an assassination attempt by militants.
Militants also set off nearly a dozen sound grenades in the town of Tuz Khurmatu, located 55 miles south of Kirkuk. No casualty was reported in the attack.
Wednesday’s vote is Iraq’s first parliamentary polls since US forces withdrew from the country in 2011.
Over 20 million voters will choose between upwards of 9,000 candidates running for 328 seats. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is hoping to win a third term.
Over the past several days, militants have been targeting candidates, election workers, and political rallies.
Takfiri groups such as the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are reportedly coming to Iraq from neighboring Syria and Saudi Arabia to undermine security in the country.
Terrorist attacks across the country killed 24 people on Tuesday, while over 60 people died in a nationwide spate of explosions on Monday.
The government in Baghdad has blamed Riyadh for the Iraq chaos, saying Saudi Arabia is funding and arming militants fighting against Iraqi forces in the country’s western areas, including Anbar Province.
IA/PR
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