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| Explosion in Gaza kills 3, injures 30 |
| 2007-12-14 |
| An explosion at a funeral procession on Friday killed three people and injured at least 30 others, as hundreds of mourners marched through Gaza City, hospital officials said. Witnesses said gunmen were firing in the air during the funeral of a Palestinian Fatah terrorist, who was killed Thursday in an Israeli airstrike after participating in the firing of Kassam rockets. Then, a powerful explosion went off. The source of the blast was unknown and it was unclear if the device was triggered or set off accidentally. Soooo sad |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 But wait! There's more... From Ma'an: Mu'awiya Hassanain, the director of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian health ministry said that four people were killed and more than 30 were injured during the funeral as a result of a grenade being hurled. He described five of the injured as being in a serious condition. He named the dead as twenty-year-old Mu'taz Masar'a and twenty-three-year-old Yousif Abu Ryala and eighteen-year-old Zuhair Awad, in addition to Ashraf Al-Ashqar, who fell from the top of a building while the funeral procession marched past. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-12-14 12:29 |
| #1 Looks like they updated it. With the humorous details... Hamas security officials said a participant in the funeral lobbed a pipe bomb at the edges of the procession, but the bomb bounced back into the procession, causing the mayhem. Witnesses said one of the marchers was wearing a bomb around his waist, as he chanted atop one of the cars. He died in the explosion. Gunfire and the setting off of fireworks are common forms of commemoration at Gaza funerals. For our entertainment pleasure, let's hope that tradition never ends... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-12-14 12:22 |