50 killed in bomb attack on rally, police and troops voting in Iraq

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* Suicide bombers disguised as police or soldiers * Militants have threatened Sunnis with death if they vote * Sectarian violence at its worst since 2008 (Incorporates Iraq-election/blast, updates with Diyala death toll) By Ahmed Rasheed and Kareem Raheem BAGHDAD, April 28 (Reuters) - Fifty people were killed on Monday as suicide bombers attacked a political rally and Iraqi police and soldiers cast their votes early for a national election in two days' time, authorities and witnesses said. A suicide attacker killed at least 30 people and wounded 50 others at a Kurdish political gathering in the town of Khanaqin, 140 km (100 miles) **rtheast of Baghdad, security sources said. The Kurds were celebrating the television appearance of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd incapacitated since late 2012, who cast his vote in Germany where he was undergoing medical treatment. "The attacker snuck among the crowds near the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's headquarters and blew himself up, causing a tragic massacre," one police ******r said, sobbing after he discovered his brother was among those killed.

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