IRAQ: A suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of men waiting to sign up to join the police force in the Iraqi city of Falluja, killing at least 18 people

Record ID: 872566

  • Title: IRAQ: A suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of men waiting to sign up to join the police force in the Iraqi city of Falluja, killing at least 18 people
  • Date: 4th May 2006
  • Summary: WOUNDED BOY LYING ON BED INSIDE HOSPITAL WOUNDED MAN LYING ON BED INSIDE HOSPITAL WARD WOUNDED MAN WITH HEAD INJURY SITTING ON BED INSIDE HOSPITAL WARD
  • Embargoed: 19th May 2006 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
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  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
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  • Story Text: A suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of men waiting to sign up to join the police force in the Iraqi city of Falluja, killing at least 18 people, doctors said on Wednesday (May 3).
    At least 25 people were also wounded. No further details were immediately available.
    Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, is a mainly Sunni Arab town and a stronghold of the insurgency against U.S. and Iraqi forces.
    Insurgents have increasingly been turning their focus from U.S. troops to Iraq's new security forces.
    In the city of Tikrit, police found three Iraqis who had been tortured and shot in the head on Wednesday. Police said the victims were residents of the town of Dujail, 50km north of the capital Baghdad.
    The bodies were immediately tak``en to the Tikrit general hospital.
    Earlier in Baghdad, fourteen male bodies with bullet holes and showing signs of torture were found in Baghdad.
    The corpses, also blindfolded and bound, were found in the Shaab district of the capital. All the bodies were those of men between the ages of about 20 and 30, the police said.
    Sectarian violence has jumped dramatically since the bombing of a major Shi'ite Muslim shrine in February. The U.S. military estimates attacks on civilians have doubled since the bombing.
    Parliament, which will soon vote on forming a government of national unity -- seen as the best hope for ending the bloodshed -- began its first normal business session since being elected in December.
    The once-dominant Sunni minority is more fully represented since abandoning its boycott of the U.S.-backed political process by voting in December. Parliament, beginning a first full four-year term since the fall of Saddam Hussein, is due to sit again next Wednesday (May 10).
    Shi'ite Prime Minister-designate Nuri al-Maliki has said he could have a cabinet line-up ready soon.
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