Naseer Al-Nahr • Arab News
Insurgents stooped to a new low when they killed 34 children gathered to collect candies after the opening of a new sewage plant in the Iraqi capital. At least 51 people were killed and 225 wounded in three separate attacks in the country, hospital and military officials said. Grief-stricken parents wailed over the bodies of their children at the hospital's morgue. One women tore at her hair, before pulling back the sheet covering her dead brother and kissing his body. Some of the children, who are near the end of a nationwide school vacation, said they were attracted to the blast scene by American soldiers handing out candy. Interior Ministry spokesman Col. Adnan Abdul-Rahman said two car bombs and a roadside bomb exploded in swift succession as a US convoy was passing through Baghdad's Al-Amel neighborhood. But a military statement said all the blasts were caused by car bombs. Angry relatives screamed for attention for their wounded from the overwhelmed doctors, many of whose uniforms were covered in blood. |