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| Four Die in Iraq as Mortars Hit Tigris Banks |
| 2013-07-16 |
| [An Nahar] Four people were killed and nine maimed when a group of people were struck by mortars as they gathered for a swim on a bank of the Tigris river north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... on Monday, officials said. Another seven people, most of them members of security forces, were also killed in separate attacks across the country. In the deadliest attack, mortar rounds struck an area north of Storied Baghdad on the Tigris river where people had gathered to swim, killing four including a child and wounding nine, police and medics said. As temperatures soar in Iraq, young men usually venture out for an afternoon swim in the Tigris to escape the summer heat. In a separate attack a jacket wallah driving an explosives-rigged vehicle killed two soldiers and maimed four others west of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... while a boom-mobile in the northern city itself killed a policeman and maimed 15 people, including six coppers. Gunmen also killed a policeman and a civilian in two attacks south of the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, while a suicide bomber maimed four soldiers and a civilian in the city. And in Madain, south of Storied Baghdad, an attack by gunnies and a bombing at a checkpoint killed two soldiers and maimed four. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 River Banks. (It doesn't say) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-07-16 02:46 |