BAGHDAD—A fire broke out Sunday in a Baghdad warehouse storing ballot boxes and voting equipment, in what some lawmakers said was an intentional act aimed at thwarting a manual recount of results for an election already dogged by allegations of fraud.
Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan said the fire had started in one of four warehouses containing ballot boxes, documents and equipment belonging to the Independent Higher Electoral Commission, which organized the vote on May 12. Army vehicles arrived to transport the surviving...