44.5 pct of Iraqi eligible voters turn out for parliamentary election

Voting employees shut down electronic counting and sorting devices at a polling station in Baghdad, Iraq, May 12, 2018. Iraq's Independent Electoral Commission (IHEC) said on Saturday that the turnout in the parliamentary election has reached 44.5 percent with votes of over 4,000 polling stations still uncounted. (Xinhua/Khalil Dawood)