IRAQ: At least 21 people killed by suicide blast over the weekend

Record ID: 357416

  • Title: IRAQ: At least 21 people killed by suicide blast over the weekend
  • Date: 16th September 2007
  • Summary: (W2) AL-SHAAB DISTRICT, BAGHDAD, IRAQ (SEPTEMBER 16, 2007) (REUTERS) DEMONSTRATORS SETTING U.S. FLAG ON FIRE DEMONSTRATORS TRAMPLING ON BURNT OUT U.S. FLAG DEMONSTRATORS CHANTING "NO! NO! TO AMERICA" DEMONSTRATOR WRITING 'NO USA' ON THE ROAD, MEN TRAMPLING ON IT
  • Embargoed: 1st October 2007 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVACJ1X3A0UXXWVQ08JNFTRJ1IUT
  • Story Text: A suicide bomber killed six people and wounded 18 at an outdoor cafe in the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmato on Sunday (September 16), police said.
    The cafe was one of the few in the religiously and ethnically mixed town, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, which was serving food during daylight hours in the holy month of Ramadan, when observant Muslims fast from dawn to dusk.
    Those wounded in the attack were taken to hospital in Kirkuk.
    On the same day at least five people died when a car bomb exploded in the al-Mansour district of western Baghdad.
    The bombings were carried out a day after an al Qaeda-led group, the Islamic State in Iraq, announced a new phase of attacks to mark Ramadan, which started late last week.
    Also on Sunday funerals were held for 10 people killed in a suicide bomb attack on Saturday (September 15) at a Baghdad bakery where people were queueing up to buy bread following a day of fasting in observation of Ramadan.
    Fifteen people were wounded in that attack.
    Also on Sunday, hundreds of supporters of the radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, took to the streets of the al-Shaab district of northern Baghdad to demonstrate against the U.S. presence in Iraq.
    The demonstrators set a U.S. flag on fire and trampled on it.
    U.S. forces have raided the Mehdi Army stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad repeatedly in the past few weeks, targeting fighters they say have links to neighbouring Iran.
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