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At least two Iraqis killed, three injured in Karbala car bomb
Mar 12, 2010, 14:12 GMT
Karbala, Iraq - At least two people were killed and three injured when a car bomb exploded in the southern Iraqi city of Karbala on Friday, witnesses told the German Press Agency dpa.
The blast followed afternoon prayers in the city, site of shrines sacred to Shiite Muslims, as election workers tallied the votes from the March 7 parliamentary polls.
Influential Shiite religious leader Abdel-Mahdi al-Karbala'i, in his sermon to thousands of worshippers gathered at the Imam Hussein mosque in the city, had earlier called on Iraq's electoral commission to announce parliamentary election results quickly.
The cleric, a close aide of revered Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, said he hoped Iraq's electoral commission would 'professionally complete the counting and sorting of the votes to allay suspicions and doubts.'
Any delay in presenting the results of the March 7 polls, Iraq's second parliamentary elections since the 2003 US-led invasion of the country, 'would delay and confuse the formation of the next parliament,' al-Karbala'i said.
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