At a polling station in the New Mosul neighbourhood, Mahasin Ahmed, 37, a school teacher, wanted to vote for
Yawar, a tribal leader, but did not know that his list number was 255 and neither did the election worker
helping her.
He suggested she vote for list 188 because it had “tribes” in the title.
“I found most of the election workers unqualified and I observed many irregularities,” said Guevara Yokhana,
34, a Christian running in the local elections, who visited seven of the 20 polling stations on the city’s east
side.
He said a lack of ballot papers sparked riots in the town of Qaraqush as thousands of furious Christians and
Kurds realised they were unable to vote.
A Patriotic Union for Kurdistan official described a similar situation in Bashiqa district.
An RAF C130 Hercules transport aircraft, believed to have been carrying SAS troops, crashed 20 miles north-west
of Baghdad yesterday.
Rescue helicopters flew over the crash site searching for any sign of life. But with the wreckage said to be
spread over a wide area there was little hope that anyone had survived.
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