Sunday 30 January 2005, 13:12 Makka Time, 10:12 GMT
As soon as the elections started, the violence of insurgents groups rose in Iraq.
At least 22 people were killed in many attacks all over the country.
In Baghdad, on Sunday, a man wearing a jacket full of explosives, blew himself up at a polling station, killing two policemen.
A goverment official said that it was the seventh attack of that kind which occurred in the capital during the elections.
Earlier, in eastern Baghdad, six people were killed in a line outside a polling station by a bomber in a similar way.
Seven civillians and two policemen died when another bomber blew himself up at a polling station centre in the Zayuna area of eastern Baghdad, where another twelve people were wounded.
A car-bomb killed another policeman outside a polling station and bombers did the same with two other polling stations, killing at least four people and wounding a dozen.
Another car-bomb was meant to reach the interim Justice Minister, but did not find him at home.
Six people were killed and another thirteen injured when a makeshift polling station was hit by a car-bomb in the al-Mansur disctrict of Baghdad.
Il Romanaccio at 11:31 AM
