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| Talafar car bomb casualties up to 50 |
| 2008-05-28 |
| (VOI) - The director of Talafar hospital said on Tuesday that casualties from the car bomb explosion that jolted the city earlier rose to four dead and 46 wounded. “Talafar hospital received four bodies and 46 wounded in the car bomb blast in al-Qalaa square in central Talafar,” Dr. Saleh al-Qado told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI) by phone. Talafar mayor General Nijm Abdullah had said earlier three civilians were killed and 27 others were wounded on Tuesday afternoon in a car bomb explosion in Talafar city. “A car rigged with explosives went off amid a market in al-Khadraa neighborhood in Talafar, west of Mosul, killing three and injuring 27, including six that are in critical condition,” General Nijm Abdullah told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI). “Five policemen are among the wounded,” he also said. The explosion is the first of its kind since the beginning of military operations in Ninewa province. The last car bomb explosion to take place in Ninewa was on May 8, 2008 in western Mosul, where one was killed and another was injured. Earlier in May, the commander of Ninewa operations, Staff Lieutenant General Riyadh Jalal, announced the commencement of Operation Lion's Roar with the aim of tracking down al-Qaeda operatives. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Message to Talafarians: this only happened because the Americans pushed AQ out of Baghdad, and Baquba, and now Mosul. It's the Americans' fault for not leaving things alone. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2008-05-28 08:15 |