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(31 Jan 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of Iraqi humvee and Iraqi soldiers standing by near a polling station where shooting took place
2. Close up of Iraqi military vehicle
3. Iraqi soldiers standing by their vehicle
4. Mid of mural for Shiite saints
5. Set up for Shiite lawmaker for Sadrist bloc in parliament Falah Shinshal:
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Falah Shinshal, Shiite lawmaker for Sadr bloc:
''An Iraqi officer and two of his soldiers opened fire on two citizens, wounding one of them seriously. One is now at Ibn al-Nafis hospital and the other one in Sadr General Hospital.''
7. Exterior of polling station and Iraqi soldiers standing nearby
8. Mid of mural for Shiite saints
STORYLINE:
Voting in Iraq's provincial election on Saturday was generally peaceful, although a shooting occurred in Baghdad's Sadr City district.
Shiite lawmaker Falah Shinshal said a military officer and two of his soldiers opened fire on two citizens, wounding one of them seriously.
But Iraq's military spokesman, Major General Qassim al-Moussawi, told Al-Arabiya television that the shooting occurred after some people tried to carry mobile phones through security cordons.
One person was killed and one injured, he said.
The reason for the conflicting accounts was not immediately clear.
Signs of the blanket security measures were everywhere. In the Baghdad neighbourhood of Karradah, Iraqi police and army soldiers manned a series of checkpoints - some only 200 yards (metres) apart.
Stores were closed and the streets cleared of cars.
A group of US soldiers patrolled on foot, but well away from polling centres. The US military assisted in security preparations for the elections but said troops would only be called in on election day if needed.
In Tikrit, about 80 miles (130 kilometres) north of Baghdad, three mortar shells exploded near a polling station, but caused no casualties, said police, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to media.
A bomb found near a Tikrit voting centre was defused, police added.
Hundreds of Iraqi Kurds stormed an election office in the disputed northern city of Khanaqin after claiming many of them were not on voting lists. There were no reports of serious injuries.
The incident was part of lingering disputes between Kurds and the Arab-run central government over control of the city near the Iranian border.
In the western city of Fallujah - once a centre of the Sunni insurgency - police used their patrol cars to help some people get to voting stations.

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