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Iraq: 38 dead and 110 injured in election violence

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BAGHDAD - Thirty-eight people were killed and 110 wounded in violence that has bloodied Sunday parliamentary elections in Iraq, according to revised figures provided by a source at the Interior Ministry.

  •    A previous review reported 24 dead and 80 wounded.
       Thirty people were killed in shelling and Katyusha rockets in Baghdad, including 25 in a collapsed building in the area north of Our Capital, hit by a rocket, the source said.
       Eight other people died in bombings in the capital and its environs.
       The number of injured stands at 110 across the country including 13 in shelling against a polling station in Iskandariyah, 50 miles south of Baghdad.
  • Ennaharonline/ M. O.

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