IRAQ: Iraqi police find bodies of 22 shooting victims near Iranian border as Iraq woman bomber kills army recruits in Tal Afar

Record ID: 354745

  • Title: IRAQ: Iraqi police find bodies of 22 shooting victims near Iranian border as Iraq woman bomber kills army recruits in Tal Afar
  • Date: 28th September 2005
  • Summary: CLOSE OF BLOOD STAINS / SHOES INSIDE THE VAN
  • Embargoed: 13th October 2005 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVABCOJJVIP7HYKMNZH4Q7HJFIZL
  • Story Text: Violence continued in Iraq on Wednesday (September 28) with a series of attacks which killed at least two in Baghdad and wounded several others, police said.
    A female suicide bomber blew herself up outside a U.S. military office in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, killing herself and at least five other people and wounding 53, police said.
    The U.S. military said in a statement that the bomb targeted Iraqi citizens filing for compensation at a Civil Military Operations Centre. Iraqis visit such centres to claim compensation if they lose relatives, or suffer damage to property, because of U.S. military action.
    Iraqi police said earlier the explosion was at an army recruitment centre where many people were queuing to join up.
    In southern Baghdad's district Doura, one man wounded and one killed when a road side bomb went off and de-tracked a minivan, police said.
    "I was walking on the street, a shrapnel hit me, and this happened," said the wounded man in the hospital.
    Another roadside bomb in the outskirts of central Baghdad also killed one, and wounded one, police said. Shattered window glasses of the minivan spread around the street were cleared by the Iraqi policemen.
    Gunmen attacked two vehicles belonging to the Jordanian embassy on the Abu Ghraib highway, west of Baghdad when they were heading to the Jordanian hospital in Falluja. There were no casualties reported, police said.
    Vehicles pulled from the scene by carrier trucks.
    Earlier, Iraqi police said on Tuesday (Sept 27) that they found 22 bodies of shooting victims near the town of Kut southeast of Baghdad.
    The victims had their hands bound and had plastic bags over their heads. The decomposed bodies appeared to be several days old, police said. The victims had been shot in the head and dumped in a deserted area of Badra district northeast of Kut and 100 miles southeast of Baghdad.
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