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More than 60 killed in Iraq funeral bombing
 [BBC.CO.UK] At least 60 people have been killed at a funeral in the mainly Shia Moslem Sadr City district of the Iraqi capital, Storied Baghdad....located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... A tent where mourners were gathered was hit by two kabooms, one of them a suicide boom-mobile. A third kaboom followed as police, ambulances and firefighters gathered at the scene, according to one report. Officials reported that women and kiddies were among the dead and that more than 120 people had been injured. No group has grabbed credit for the bombing, which happened early on Saturday evening. The kabooms reportedly set the tents and nearby cars on fire, with eyewitnesses describing the scene as an "inferno". "I saw several charred bodies on the ground and tents on fire and also burning cars. Wounded people were screaming in pain,'' says one of the mourners, Sheikh Sattar al-Fartousi. Medics in nearby hospitals confirmed the scale of the casualties. Also on Saturday, eight people were killed in a separate kaboom in a street in the nearby neighbourhood of Ur. And at least five coppers were killed in an assault on a cop shoppe in Baiji, north of Storied Baghdad. Posted by: Fred 2013-09-22 |
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