Suicide bomber in Iraq kills 59 (Shi'ite city of Kufa )

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Suicide bomber in Iraq kills 59

By Khaled Farhan Tue Jul 18, 8:31 AM ET

KUFA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber pulled his van into a busy market on Tuesday, lured labourers with job offers and blew himself up, killing scores in one of the worst attacks in
Iraq since the new government was installed in April.

The blast in the Shi'ite city of Kufa killed 59 people and sparked clashes between police and angry protesters, dealing a fresh blow to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's efforts to promote national reconciliation and avoid a slide toward civil war.

Maliki, a Shi'ite who has offered dialogue with some Sunni insurgents, pledged to "hunt down and punish" those responsible. The largest political party of the minority Sunni community urged Iraqis to "recover their senses before Iraq descends into the abyss." Hospital sources said 132 were wounded.

Police at the scene were pelted with rocks by angry crowds, many of whom demanded that militias loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr take over security in Kufa, near the holy city of Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad.

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