Six killed as officials count Iraq ballots

[World News]

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Attacks north of Baghdad, including a car bomb set off by a suicide attacker, killed six people on Friday, just days after Iraq's parliamentary election. The bloodshed comes with officials counting votes from Wednesday's polls, the first since US troops withdrew in late 2011, amid a protracted surge in nationwide unrest that has left more than 3,000 dead already this year. Iraqi authorities blame spillover from the civil war in neighbouring Syria and say the powerful Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadist group is behind most of the violence. In Friday's deadliest attack, a suicide bomber set off a vehicle rigged with explosives on a highway connecting Baghdad to the town of Dujail, in Salaheddin province, killing four soldiers and wounding two others, officials said.

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