BADIN, Oct 10: Except for some minor incidents of violence, the polling for two National Assembly and five Provincial Assembly seats concluded peacefully in Badin and it suburbs.

The polling lacked its traditional fervour and enthusiasm in majority of the 642 polling stations in the district.

A team of journalists visited many polling stations in the district and observed the turnout was very low in the morning and it improved somewhat at about 3pm.

The votes polled till 11am at polling station-12 were 14 against 466 registered votes, 50 votes were cast at polling station-11 at 12:00 noon and at polling station-7, out of 1056 registered voters, 107 cast their votes at 1:00 pm.

Some agents complained the presiding officer had ordered not to count green ballot papers put in the white box and white ballots put in the green box.

Six persons were injured when some miscreants restored to aerial firing near polling station-265, Tando Bago.

The miscreants were sitting in sugarcane fields and when supporters of the PPP came on a trolley, they opened fire. The windscreen of the vehicle of a PPP candidate, Haji Abdul Karim Bhurgari, was also broken by a man with a baton.

In Khoski, the polling was suspended for one hour following a scuffle between supporters of the PPP and the PML (Q) in which at least six persons — Khabar Katai, Siddiq, Mohammad, Roshan, Ali Nawaz (PML-Q supporters) and Haji Soomro (PPP supporter) — were injured.

The polling at Malkani and Bachal Mori polling stations was also suspended for one hour.