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At least 132 dead in Iraq bomb attacks
By DPA,
Nov 24, 2006 - 5:35:29 AM
Baghdad, Nov 23 - At least 132 people have been killed in a series of powerful bomb attacks Thursday in suburb of Sadr near here, a top interior ministry official said.
The first explosion took place in a vegetable market and was followed by five further car bombings occurring at intervals of 15 minutes, said General Jihad al-Jabiri.
A seventh car bomb was detected and disarmed.
Sources say the death toll was liable to mount as more than 200 Iraqis were injured - some severely - in the attacks, said to be a combination of mortar and car bomb explosions.
Earlier Thursday, American military forces in Iraq killed four civilians and wounded eight others in eastern Baghdad, while an insurgent attack on Iraqi ministry of health came to an end in the city's centre.
According to Iraqi police, a US force opened fire at a small bus during a raid in Al-Fallah street in Baghdad's Shia neighbourhood of Sadr.
Witnesses said the victims were on their way to work when a US tank opened fire at their bus.
The Americans, suspecting that a kidnapped US soldier was being kept in Sadr, were conducting continuous raids in neighbourhood.
Meanwhile, in a surprise visit US Vice President Dick Cheney arrived here Thursday, the al-Iraqiya television reported.
Cheney is expected to hold talks with Iraqi leaders on the security situation in the country, the TV report said.
This comes as the US military command in Fallujah reported Thursday that insurgents had killed three US marines in western Iraq Wednesday during operations in the western province of Anbar.
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