Iraq Bombs Kill at Least 60, Injure 70
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › September 30, 2005
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Just before sunset, the first blast ripped through an open-air market crowded with Iraqis buying vegetables for dinner. The next bomb exploded moments later at a bank just yards away, followed swiftly by a third on a nearby street of clothing shops.
Thursday's coordinated string of suicide car bombings killed at least 60 people and wounded at least 70 in Balad, an overwhelmingly Shiite town in the largely Sunni region north of Baghdad.See the full content of this document
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Iraq Bombs Kill at Least 60, Injure 70
The attacks targeting Shiite civilians added to a new surge of violence ahead of an Oct. 15 referendum on Iraq's constitution, whose passage is crucial to prospects for starting a withdrawal of American troops.
Sunni insurgents have vowed to wreck the vote, with al-Qaida in Iraq declaring "all-out war" on...See the full content of this document
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