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| Iraq |
| Funeral turns into bloodbath in Iraq |
| 2011-10-01 |
| [Iran Press TV] At least 18 people have been killed and 48 others have been maimed in a huge bomb kaboom that targeted mourners at a funeral in the city of Hillah in central Iraq. A massive car boom detonated on Friday, ripping through a crowd of people mourning the death of a local sheikh near a mosque in Hillah, 100 km (60 miles) south of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , AFP reported. The huge blast left at least 48 people injured and damaged a number of vehicles near the tent where the mourners had gathered, police said. On Thursday, two women and a man were killed and 76 others were maimed when an explosive-laden truck detonated in front of a bank in Kirkuk as coppers were collecting their monthly salaries. In a separate incident, an Iraqi policeman was bumped off in Storied Baghdad. A soldier was also killed and two others were maimed by a mortar attack on an Iraqi military base in Tarmiyah, north of the capital. Iraq witnessed its deadliest terrorist attack of the month on September 25, when twin bombings rocked the southern Iraqi city of Karbala, killing at least 25 people and wounding dozens of others in the shrine city. |
| Posted by:Fred |