Turnout for Iraq election solid at 62 percent

2010/03/08 13:15:30 @Reuters: World News

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Turnout in Iraq's parliamentary election was 62 percent, higher than in last year's provincial ballot, despite attempts by Sunni Islamist insurgents to disrupt the vote with attacks that killed 39, officials said on Monday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=8aWNzrHsjk8:yuwp-61eUkg:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=8aWNzrHsjk8:yuwp-61eUkg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=8aWNzrHsjk8:yuwp-61eUkg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=8aWNzrHsjk8:yuwp-61eUkg:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=8aWNzrHsjk8:yuwp-61eUkg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/8aWNzrHsjk8" height="1" width="1"/
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