Election day in Afghanistan (twit pic)

Citizens lined up to democratically vote for a new leader in the country's capital, Kabul. Heavy security guarded voters as they took to the polls. Government officials noted such wide participation that the voting hours were extended to accommodate all of the people waiting in line.

While the weather was murky, the actual voting went off without a hitch, but there were multiple acts of violence throughout the country on Saturday. 

Seven military personnel, nine police officers and four civilians were killed as radicals tried to stymie the elections, Afghan Interior Minister Mohammad Umer Daudzai told CNN. Forty three more people were injured in attacks on voting centers. 

On the contrary, Afghan security agents stopped several attacks on voting centers and killed more than 80 radicals in the process. 

Now that the voting has ceased, Afghanistan will soon name their new president. It is between the country's former finance minister, and Columbia University alum Ashrah Ghani, who is from the Pashtum ethnic group and Abdul Rashid Dostum, who is the leader of the Uzbek ethnic group. 

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