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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Sat Jul 12, 2014, 04:54 PM Jul 2014

Gunmen Kill At Least 33, Including 29 Women, In Attack On Baghdad Compound

Source: Associated Press

BAGHDAD – Iraqi police say gunmen have killed at least 33 people, including 29 women, in a raid on two buildings in a housing complex in Baghdad.

Police officials say the gunmen showed up in four-wheel drive vehicles before storming the buildings in the Zayounah neighbourhood in eastern Baghdad. They say at least 18 people were wounded.

Police have cordoned off the area.

An Interior Ministry official and hospital officials confirmed the casualty figures.

Read more: http://globalnews.ca/news/1447692/gunmen-kill-at-least-33-including-29-women-in-attack-on-baghdad-compound/

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Gunmen Kill At Least 33, Including 29 Women, In Attack On Baghdad Compound (Original Post) Purveyor Jul 2014 OP
Finally! A mass shooting story outside the U.S. onehandle Jul 2014 #1
another victory for gun control quadrature Jul 2014 #3
The idiot son sleeps like a baby hibbing Jul 2014 #2

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
1. Finally! A mass shooting story outside the U.S.
Sat Jul 12, 2014, 04:57 PM
Jul 2014

Iraq is really 'progressing' now.

The NRA needs to hold their next convention there.

Send Wayne LaPierre!

 

quadrature

(2,049 posts)
3. another victory for gun control
Sun Jul 13, 2014, 01:47 AM
Jul 2014

the gov't had guns.
the prostitutes had their fists.
guess who won?

not sure what the NRA has to do
with what happened.

hibbing

(10,098 posts)
2. The idiot son sleeps like a baby
Sat Jul 12, 2014, 05:28 PM
Jul 2014

As I always post at these stories, I will be seeing headlines like these until I am dead.

Peace

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