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10 killed in Baghdad bus bombing; 46 corpses found | |||
2006-11-14 | |||
At least 10 people were killed in a Baghdad bus bombing Monday. Police around the Iraqi capital also found 46 bullet-riddled corpses, many of them tortured, of men shot to death in apparent sectarian attacks, a security source said. The source said the bodies were recovered since early morning, with six found in Baghdad's northeastern Sunni neighbourhood of Ghazaliyah which has frequently been in conflict with the neighboring Shiite area of Shuala. A police commander kidnapped earlier the same day was among those killed, he said. The violence followed Sunday's suicide attack on a bus near a church in northeast Baghdad that also wounded 17 people. Those killed in the bus included four women and an infant, a medic at nearby Sadr City's Imam Ali hospital said, adding that most of the corpses were charred beyond recognition. Meanwhile, the U.S. military said it killed eight "terrorists" in multiple raids around Baghdad and detained another 41, while 10 bodies were recovered from Diyala, a flashpoint province north of Baghdad. Another 11 people were killed in a series of shootings around the country, including six in Baquba and a cameraman working for Sunni-owned satellite channel Sharqiya, shot dead in the northern city of Mosul. On the political front, Shiite lawmaker Abbas al-Bayati said that "10 ministers are set to change." There are 37 ministers in the cabinet.
Othman called for a "formula between the Americans and the Iraqis that could include gradual withdrawal of troops," a key factor for stemming unrest, according to Sunni Arabs, apart from the rampaging Shiite militias. | |||
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