Suicide Bomber Kills 25 In Iraqi Cafe Attack...

Associated Press Ryan Lenz July 16, 2006 at 02:37 PM
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A suicide bomber detonated explosives Sunday inside a northern Iraqi cafe popular with Shiites, killing 25 people and injuring 23, an Iraqi general said.

The attack occurred just after sunset at a cafe in the outdoor market in Tuz Khormato, a mostly Turkomen city 130 miles north of Baghdad, Maj. Gen. Anwar Mohammed Amin said. '

Turkomen, one of Iraq's ethnic groups, are mixed Sunni and Shiite. Amin said Shiites favored the cafe because it was located near a Shiite mosque.

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