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| Suicide bomber kills 40 people in northern Iraq |
| 2008-02-27 |
| (Xinhua) -- A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a bus traveling west of Mosul in northern Iraq's Nineveh province on Tuesday, killing 40 people and wounding five others, a provincial police source said. "A suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest blew himself up in the afternoon inside a bus carrying passengers traveling on the main road near the Tamarat village, some 60 km west of Mosul," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The bus, which was totally destroyed by the blast, has moved earlier from the city of Mosul and was heading to the neighboring Syria in the west when the incident took place, the source said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Given they're Nineveh province's majority population and the destination, it was likely Sunnis aboard the bus. And yes - it could be wrong. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-02-27 21:01 |
| #1 The more I look at this one, the odder it gets. A bus heading *towards* Syria is targeted? Suicide bombers tend to radiate out of Syria, not head back towards the border. This Xinhua article is the only hit so far for this incident, which seems like it would be a pretty significant event. The source is anonymous, not military, and Multi-National Forces Iraq doesn't have anything on such an attack. There *was* a pedestrian suicide bombing in Iskandariyah on Sunday with a reported 40 killed, and similarly a suicide bomb attack on a crowd of police recruits in Tamarat proper two years ago with the same casualty number. Is it possible this report is a mistake? |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-02-27 09:40 |