Iraq death toll tops 270 in 9 days
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Iraq death toll tops 270 in 9 days
Latest car bombs kill 24 in towns near Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two suicide car bombs killed at least 24 Iraqis on Friday, continuing nine days of violence that have left a death toll topping 270 people.
One bomb exploded at a market in Suwayrah, killing at least 16 people and wounding 47, police said. The town, 25 miles south of the capital, is in a notorious insurgent stronghold known as the Triangle of Death.
The other bomb destroyed a police minibus at a checkpoint in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, killing at least eight policemen and wounding seven people, officials said.
The attacks were part of a surge of violence since Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari announced his new government on April 28.
Those assaults included 73 people who died when suicide bombers with explosives strapped to their bodies set them off in lines of job applicants outside two recruitment centers for security forces in Baghdad and the northern city of Irbil.
Bodies found in garbage dump
Separately Friday, scavengers sifting through garbage stumbled across at least 12 bodies at a dump in Kasra Waatash, on the northeastern edge of Baghdad, police and soldiers said.
There were conflicting accounts of how many bodies were found. One soldier counted 14; a local police chief put the number at 12.
The victims, believed to be Iraqis, were found in shallow graves and seemed to have been killed recently. Some were blindfolded and had been shot in the head.
At Baghdad’s central morgue, an official said 12 bodies had been received. Families identified some of the victims as farmers who disappeared recently on their way to a market to sell their produce, a morgue official said.
8 police killed
In Tikrit, a car packed with explosives — and with a taxi sign on its roof — destroyed the minibus carrying police.
Initial reports by police had mistakenly said the attack involved explosives hidden inside the minibus and set off by remote control in Tikrit, which is 80 miles north of Baghdad.
Elsewhere, two insurgents shot at American soldiers on patrol in south Baghdad early Friday, and one militant was killed in the return fire, the U.S. military said. Another insurgent was detained, the statement said.
Militants holding an Australian engineer hostage issued a 72-hour ultimatum for Australia to start pulling troops out of Iraq, Arab television station al-Jazeera reported Friday.
---May the innocent dead haunt GW Bush like a plauge upon his soul.---
Iraq death toll tops 270 in 9 days
Latest car bombs kill 24 in towns near Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two suicide car bombs killed at least 24 Iraqis on Friday, continuing nine days of violence that have left a death toll topping 270 people.
One bomb exploded at a market in Suwayrah, killing at least 16 people and wounding 47, police said. The town, 25 miles south of the capital, is in a notorious insurgent stronghold known as the Triangle of Death.
The other bomb destroyed a police minibus at a checkpoint in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, killing at least eight policemen and wounding seven people, officials said.
The attacks were part of a surge of violence since Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari announced his new government on April 28.
Those assaults included 73 people who died when suicide bombers with explosives strapped to their bodies set them off in lines of job applicants outside two recruitment centers for security forces in Baghdad and the northern city of Irbil.
Bodies found in garbage dump
Separately Friday, scavengers sifting through garbage stumbled across at least 12 bodies at a dump in Kasra Waatash, on the northeastern edge of Baghdad, police and soldiers said.
There were conflicting accounts of how many bodies were found. One soldier counted 14; a local police chief put the number at 12.
The victims, believed to be Iraqis, were found in shallow graves and seemed to have been killed recently. Some were blindfolded and had been shot in the head.
At Baghdad’s central morgue, an official said 12 bodies had been received. Families identified some of the victims as farmers who disappeared recently on their way to a market to sell their produce, a morgue official said.
8 police killed
In Tikrit, a car packed with explosives — and with a taxi sign on its roof — destroyed the minibus carrying police.
Initial reports by police had mistakenly said the attack involved explosives hidden inside the minibus and set off by remote control in Tikrit, which is 80 miles north of Baghdad.
Elsewhere, two insurgents shot at American soldiers on patrol in south Baghdad early Friday, and one militant was killed in the return fire, the U.S. military said. Another insurgent was detained, the statement said.
Militants holding an Australian engineer hostage issued a 72-hour ultimatum for Australia to start pulling troops out of Iraq, Arab television station al-Jazeera reported Friday.
---May the innocent dead haunt GW Bush like a plauge upon his soul.---
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