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Vegetable cart booms in Mahmoudiya
 A bomb exploded on Saturday in a vegetable cart in a market in Mahmoudiya, a religiously mixed town about 20km south of Baghdad, killing two people and injuring 10 others, hospital officials said. The blast occurred a few minutes after mourners passed by with the body of an aide to Shia Grand Ayat Allah Ali al-Sistani - Kamaleddin al-Ghuraifi - who was slain on Friday outside a Baghdad mosque. It was unknown whether the bomb was intended for the mourners, who were carrying the body through the town en route to burial in the Shia shrine city of Najaf."It is a calamity for the neighbourhood, for Baghdad, for Muslims and for Shia," al-Ghuraifi's weeping brother Abu Hussein said. "What was his guilt? He was an old man, 70 years old and paralysed. What did he do?" Al-Ghuraifi's murder was one of three attacks on prominent Shia targets within 24 hours. Posted by: Fred 2005-07-03 |
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