Kabul - Bloody Elections in Afghanistan: When the polls were open, were killed in 73 attacks, police, soldiers and civilians. More than 50 people died. Four suicide bombers had blown themselves up in the air.
Some voting centers could be opened not only for safety reasons, others had to close early. At a polling station was taken early in the morning a rocket, a second exploded in a nearby school. In this attack there were no injuries.
A total of 200,000 foreign and 100,000 Afghan security forces could not stop the terrorists. Again and again he succeeded Taliban to engage the soldiers in battles on for hours. Several of the terrorists was killed.
Even before there had been repeated threats by Taliban terrorists. Therefore, the turnout this time was also less than five years ago, received more than 80 percent of the electorate to vote.
- Are tallied up the votes of some 29,000 polling stations - some are far away in the mountains, it will take several days.
Next week is expected to first unofficial results. On 17 September is the end result feststehen.Kaum one expects that the former President Hamid Karzai will not be the next President. But he did not Gets the absolute majority is elected again in early October. Then connect only the leader and the runner-up with each other.
It was the second presidential election after the fall of the Taliban 2,001th
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