IRAQ: A bomb blast ripped through a crowd of labourers in a square in Baghdad's Shi'ite Sadr City district, killing 25 people and wounding 60

Record ID: 357289

  • Title: IRAQ: A bomb blast ripped through a crowd of labourers in a square in Baghdad's Shi'ite Sadr City district, killing 25 people and wounding 60
  • Date: 30th October 2006
  • Summary: SIGN READING "AL-KINDI HOSPITAL" WOUNDED ON BED INSIDE HOSPITAL WARD VARIOUS BLOODIED WOUNDED RECEIVING TREATMENT BODY IN MORGUE AMBULANCE OUTSIDE HOSPITAL
  • Embargoed: 14th November 2006 12:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: War / Fighting,Defence / Military
  • Reuters ID: LVA1B0JE0ZBE7JMZPEYYP6HIXDKN
  • Story Text: A bomb blast ripped through a crowd of labourers in a square in Baghdad's Shi'ite Sadr City district on Monday (October 30), killing 28 people and wounding 60, Iraqi Interior Ministry sources said.
    The labourers were gathering to wait for job offers, the sources said.
    "We do not know whether it was a bomb or a mortar. Let (Prime Minister Nuri) al-Maliki hear that. Does God accept that? Let al-Maliki and others hear that. They are poor labourers who work to bring a daily living for their families. They are poor labourers and people who sell tea. The Americans did it. It is an ugly act. They did it and then they came in their vehicles here. They are sons of bitches," said a local resident.
    The blast tore through food stalls and shops. Scattered clothes and twisted metal lay amid debris and pools of blood.
    Sadr City is a stronghold of radical Shi'ite Mulsim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who heads the powerful Mehdi Army militia.
    Sunni Arab insurgents battling U.S. forces and the Shi'ite-led government have in the past struck Sadr City with car bombs and mortar shells.
    In July, more than 60 people were killed when a car bomb blasted through a market in Sadr City.
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