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Dozens slain in Baghdad, Karbala attacks
Another bad day.A car bomb blasted through a busy bus station near one of Iraq's holiest shrines Saturday and killed at least 56 people, police and hospital officials said. Separately, a suicide car bomb killed 10 people on a major bridge in downtown Baghdad the second attack on a span over the Tigris river this week, police said. The Jadriyah bridge suffered little damage. The bus station bombing occurred about 200 yards from the Imam Hussein shrine in Karbala, where the grandson of Islam's Prophet Muhammad is buried one of the most important sites for Shiites. Hundreds of people swarmed around ambulances, crying out and pounding their chests in grief. Police fired into the air to disperse crowds and clear roads for emergency vehicles, but angry mobs attacked them and set two police vehicles on fire. Rioters surrounded the Karbala governor's office and demanded his and provincial council members' resignations blaming them for lax security. Mobs threw stones at the governor's office and set fire to the building. Sorry, folks; 'they' are not responsible for your security - YOU have to help. At least a little good news: Police said four would-be suicide attackers were killed Saturday in the northern city of Kirkuk when one of them detonated his explosives belt prematurely. All four men were killed but no civilians were hurt, said police Brig. Adil Zain-Alabideen. He said all four were insurgents embarking on an attack mission, but did not elaborate. Posted by: Glenmore 2007-04-14 |
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