IRAQ: Seven dead in car bomb attack on a market in Kerbala. Mortar rounds kill two, wound three in Baghdad's Kadhimiya neighbourhood

Record ID: 352747

  • Title: IRAQ: Seven dead in car bomb attack on a market in Kerbala. Mortar rounds kill two, wound three in Baghdad's Kadhimiya neighbourhood
  • Date: 10th December 2006
  • Summary: (BN12) ISHAQI, IRAQ (DECEMBER 9, 2006) (REUTERS) CROWD VEHICLES BRINGING BODIES OF VICTIMS OF ISHAQI ATTACK TO THE FUNERAL BODIES ON A TRUCK VARIOUS OF MOURNERS CHANTING ANTI-U.S. SLOGANS / AUDIO OF GUNFIRE BODIES ON THE FLOOR VARIOUS OF MOURNERS VARIOUS OF BURIAL
  • Embargoed: 25th December 2006 12:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,War / Fighting
  • Reuters ID: LVA3GT2NW9Q0YYM9M376A5QWDIV1
  • Story Text: At least seven people were killed and 40 wounded when a car bomb exploded on Saturday (December 9) in a busy market in the Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala, hospital sources said while police said eight were killed.
    Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) south of Baghdad, is usually under heavy security since March 2004, when coordinated suicide bombings killed more than 90 people during an annual religious festival in the city.
    The bombing on Saturday is the first there since a suicide bomber blew himself up in January, killing 53.
    Sectarian tension is mounting in Iraq between majority Shi'ites and Sunni Arabs who were once dominant under Saddam Hussein. Some Sunni militants oppose the political process and have launched attacks against U.S. troops and the Shi'ite-led government.
    Mortar rounds also landed at a Shi'ite district of Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding three others, police and hospital sources said.
    They said mortars slammed into a narrow residential alley in Baghdad's Kadhimiya neighbourhood, causing damage to at least three houses and gouging holes in the roofs.
    Angry residents of a village north of Baghdad fired into the air and chanted "God is greatest" as they buried the victims of a U.S. air strike that the country's Sunni leaders condemned as a massacre.
    Iraqi and U.S. officials gave sharply differing accounts of the attack with a town mayor accusing American troops of killing five children.
    The U.S. military issued a statement saying ground forces with air support killed 18 men and two women in the Thar Thar area of Salahaddin province, north of Baghdad. It suspected all of being al Qaeda militants and said it found weapons including rocket-propelled grenades and explosive suicide vests.
    Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said shortly after taking office in April that he was losing patience with reports of U.S. troops killing civilians. Many Iraqis believe unjustified killings by U.S. troops are common, but few have been confirmed by official investigations.
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