Reuters: Attack on Iraq market kills about 40: police

[Eugene]

Attack on Iraq market kills about 40: police

By Alastair Macdonald
Reuters
Monday, July 17, 2006; 4:09 AM

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - About 40 people were killed in an attack
around a crowded market in a violent town just outside Baghdad
on Monday, police and Interior Ministry sources said.

There were conflicting accounts from officials about the events.
In Baghdad, police and ministry sources said a car bomb devastated
the market in Mahmudiya, just south of the city.

But in the town itself, a police source said a series of explosions,
reported to Reuters by local residents, were mortars falling on the
town, followed by a rampage by gunmen through the market -- a rare
tactic in Iraq against civilian targets.

That source said 39 people were killed and 38 wounded. The sources
in Baghdad put the toll at 42 dead and 33 wounded.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/17/AR2006071700111.html

A related BBC article, Attack on Iraqi market kills 40, also notes
that almost 100 civilians have been killed in Iraq in the past 24 hours.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Article now says hospitals say 56 dead

It tells you something when violence and death like this in Iraq have become routine.

[saigon68]

3. FREEDOM IS ON THE MARCH

AND THE "CIVIL WAR" GOES ON

[adriennui]

2. is this a different attack from the one reported yesterday?

the entire earth is on a fast track to oblivion. maybe it wouldm't be a bad idea to start all over again.