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Funerals held for victims of Baghdad market blasts
Funerals have been held for many of the 68 victims of a twin bombing in a Baghdad shopping district.
- Agencies
- Published: 12:44 March 7, 2008
- Image Credit: AP
- Funerals have been held for many of the 68 victims of a twin bombing in a Baghdad shopping district
Baghdad: Funerals have been held for many of the 68 victims of a twin bombing in a Baghdad shopping district.
More than 130 people were also injured in the blasts in the predominantly Shia area of Karradah on Thursday.
Mohammad Al Rubaie, head of the Karradah municipality said a roadside bomb detonated in the market, and then a suicide bomber blew himself up five minutes later.
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