In Iraq, at least 14 people have been killed in two suicide bombings. The blasts, also wounded 48 people, including 25 Iraqi troops. <br/><br/>The first suicide bomber blew himself up at a school being used as a polling centre in the upscale west Baghdad neighbourhood of Mansur this afternoon. Three soldiers were killed and 15 wounded in the attack.<br/><br/>In the second attack around 45 minutes later, a bomber detonated his explosives-laden vest in another school turned polling station in Baab al-Muadham, in the centre of the Iraqi capital, killing four soldiers and wounding 10. <br/><br/>A medical official said, earlier, seven people, four of them children, were killed and 23 wounded in an attack near a polling station that will be used in Sunday's election. <br/><br/>The violence came despite heightened security measures and after the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, threatened to disrupt the election by "military means".<br/>