IRAQ: Baghdad residents struggle to recover from Monday's violence as more decapitated bodies are found dumped in the western district

Record ID: 356346

  • Title: IRAQ: Baghdad residents struggle to recover from Monday's violence as more decapitated bodies are found dumped in the western district
  • Date: 12th September 2006
  • Summary: STREET SCENE
  • Embargoed: 27th September 2006 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: War / Fighting
  • Reuters ID: LVA12IA25ODH4CMN67HM77X9QC89
  • Story Text: A car bomb exploded outside an electricity substation in western Baghdad on Monday (September 11), wounding five people, police said.
    The blast took place in the mainly Shi'ite district of Hurriya.
    "A car was parked here, but thank God there were no one here. After the explosion (of the car) a missile was fired from the car and entered the shop, so we ran away and minutes later a second blast happened, but thank God no one was killed," said Abu Karrar, a resident of the area.
    A group of jubilant children gathered around the twisted wreckage of the car with some mounting it.
    Early on in the day (September 11), a suicide bomber killed 12 people in a minibus transporting Iraqi army recruits.
    Most of the dead in the blast were young recruits who had boarded a public minibus outside the Muthanna base in central Baghdad, which has been targeted in the past by insurgents from the Sunni Arab minority, including al Qaeda Islamists, who oppose the U.S.-backed Shi'ite-led coalition government.
    Meanwhile, five decapitated bodies were found dumped in Baghdad's western district of Amiriya, hospital sources said.
    The bodies were delivered to al-Yarmouk hospital morgue by the police to be collected by their families.
    No further details were immediately available on the grisly find. Batches of bodies have repeatedly been discovered in various parts of Baghdad gagged, bound and shot repeatedly.
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