58 die in car bombing at Iraqi market
Agencies in Baghdad
Saturday May 7, 2005
The Guardian

At least 58 people were killed and 44 wounded yesterday when a suicide attacker exploded a car bomb near a vegetable market in a mostly Shia Muslim town south of Baghdad, hospital officials said.

The slaughter in Suwayra was part of a fresh wave of insurgent violence in Iraq that has killed more than 250 people - many of them Iraqi soldiers and police - since the prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, announced his new government on April 28. Iraqi officials say the attacks are designed to fuel sectarian tensions and trigger civil war.

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