Security forces tighten control on 52 ballot stations in Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Iraqi army forces completed their presence with the police at 52 voting stations in northern and eastern Mosul within preparations for Iraq’s local elections scheduled to be held on January 31, according to a military source on Monday. “Forces from the 1st Division’s 3rd Brigade, stationed off the left coast of the city of Mosul, completed today (Jan. 26) their presence in association with the Ninewa police at ballot stations in northern and eastern Mosul,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The security forces have placed barricades in front of the stations, placed barbed wires and pitched special tents for inspection of women,” noted the source. The forthcoming local elections will be held all provinces of Iraq except those of the three autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region provinces of Arbil, Sulaimaniya and Duhuk. Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. AmR (P)/SR 1