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Car bomb kills 30, wounds 45 in S Baghdad
Source: Xinhuanet | 12-31-2006 08:23
Special Report: Iraq in Transition |
| At least 30 people were killed and more than 45 others wounded when a car bomb went off Saturday at a busy market in Kufa town near the holy Shiite city of Najaf, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo) |
BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- At least 30 people were killed and more than 45 others wounded when a car bomb went off Saturday at a busy market in Kufa town near the holy Shiite city of Najaf, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.
"A car bomb parking at a popular market in Kufa town detonated at about 10:00 a.m. (0700 GMT), killing 30 people and wounding 45 others," the source said on condition of anonymity.
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| The attack came just few hours after the Iraqi government executed the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein by hanging early Saturday. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) |
The attack came just few hours after the Iraqi government executed the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein by hanging early Saturday.
Editor:Du Xiaodan
