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| Iraq |
| New mortar attacks claim four lives in capital |
| 2007-02-01 |
| (KUNA) -- Several mortar shells crashed into the predominantly-Sunni district of Al-A'thamiah in the Iraqi capital on Wednesday killing four people and wounding at least 20 others, a security source said. Several shells crashed near burial site of the great Islamic scholar, Abi Hanifa Al-Nu'man, and a number of houses and stores were damaged. Security authorities urged civilians to refrain from gathering, fearing further attacks. On Tuesday, the same district was targetted with an identical attack that took lives of 20 people. In Mosul, a policeman died and four others were wounded when a car bomb blew up, ripping through a patrol of the police in the northern city. A police source said the explosion occurred in the district of Wadi Ogab in the south of the city. Separately, police found a headless dead body of an unidentified person. |
| Posted by:Fred |