Iraq Election : Election officials in Iraq had started the process of counting votes after the country’s second parliamentary elections in full since the invasion in 2003 led the United States.
Authorities imposed a curfew in the capital Baghdad, after polling stations closed on Sunday to ensure the safe transport of ballot papers from polling stations to the Election Commission in the offices of the main screening.
Millions of people found to cast their ballots across the country, the choice of more than 6,000 candidates from 86 political groups seeking to gain seats in the General Assembly composed of 325 members.
But the vote was marred by violence and a series of explosions that left at least 38 people and wounding 89 others were wounded inthe capital.
The outcome of a bloody explosion that destroyed a residential building in the Shaab district of northern Baghdad, killing 25 people and wounding at least eight others.
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