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About one million Iraqis have cast their ballots during early voting in Iraq, three days ahead of the country's parliamentary election.
The vote on Thursday was overshadowed by violence as a series of blasts killed at least 14 people and wounded 57 others at polling stations in the capital, Baghdad.
In the first attack, seven people were killed in an explosion near a closed polling station in northern Baghdad.
Shortly thereafter, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a school being used as a polling station in western Baghdad, killing at least three soldiers.
Separately, a bomber detonated an explosives-laden vest in Baab al-Muadham, in the centre of the city, killing four soldiers.
High alert
The country remains on high alert as the rest of the population go to the polls on Sunday.
The early voting period is designed to allow security personnel, medical staff and prisoners with less than five years left in jail a chance to vote ahead of the nationwide election.
On polling day itself, more than 200,000 security officers will be on duty in Baghdad.
Security has been tightened across Baghdad, following Wednesday's bomb attack in the town of Baquba, which killed 29 people.
Al Jazeera's Anita McNaught, reporting from Baghdad, said the election could be seen as a security test for the country.
"The military are trying as hard as they can - as hard as they have the training for - to try and prevent any more such attacks happening," she said.
"They say they are doing what they can, but if someone is determined to push their way through a crowd and they have no intelligence on them, it really is that anonymous face you can't anticipate in advance.
"No one is making excuses for this, but they are hoping they'll prevent more of these attacks from happening."
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Iraqis inspect destrcution at the site of a rocket attack in Baghdad's al-Hurriyah neighborhood.
Agencies
