(Reuters) - Islamic State’s Amaq News Agency released a video on Friday showing what they said was Islamic State militants shooting “two advocators” for next month’s Iraqi parliamentary elections in the town of al-Tarmiyah, in the Salah al-Din governorate north of Baghdad.

Islamic State said earlier this week that it would attack polling stations in Iraq during parliamentary elections next month and that anyone who participated in the vote would be considered an infidel.

In an audio message released on April 22, the militant group’s spokesman accused Iraq’s Shi’ite-led government of being a proxy of Iran and warned that anyone who runs or votes in the May 12 election would be targeted.

Iraqi officials have said polling stations will be well protected.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory in December over Islamic State, which seized a third of Iraq in 2014, but the hardline Sunni militants have reverted to insurgency tactics following the crumbling of their self-declared caliphate.</s>Iraq's Haider al-Abadi declared victory over ISIS, which seized third of Iraq in 2014 (Representational)</s>At least four people were killed, and one were wounded in recent violence:

The Islamic State’s Amaq News Agency released a video in which militants executed two people they referred to as “election advocators.” The video was released on April 22, and the agency claimed the pair was from Tarmiya.

Gunmen killed one person and wounded another in Baaj.

Also in Tarmiya, a suicide bomber was killed.

Turkish clashes with the Kurdistan Workers Party (P.K.K.) along the border forced villagers to flee their homes.
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Islamic State releases a video showing the shooting executions of two men, said to be election "advocators" from al-Tarmiyah, Iraq.