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forcing drivers to spend more than a day queuing for petrol and underlining the government's struggle to maintain even basic services weeks ahead of elections.
In the past two weeks queues often hundreds of cars long have stretched for miles, and disputes between drivers and police have turned violent. In one incident last week at a petrol station in Yarmouk, an affluent area of western Baghdad, a police major was shot dead by a man in the queue.

Government officials have blamed attacks by insurgents for a sharp fuel shortage in a country that has the world's second largest supply of oil.

But petrol station managers say the problems stem more from electricity shortages that prevent pumps from working, higher demand from Iraqis who rely on petrol not just for their cars but to run generators for their homes, and from the dramatic increase in the number of cars on the road since the war last year. A new night-time curfew in Baghdad has also meant petrol stations no longer stay open late.


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