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15 die in wedding car bomb
31/10/2006 18:51 - (SA)
Baghdad - A car bomb blast ripped through a wedding party in north Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 15 guests - including four children - and wounding 19 more, a security official said.
An interior ministry official said the blast targeted a wedding convoy at dusk in Ur, a mainly Shi'ite residential district on the outskirts of Sadr city, which one day earlier was also the scene of a deadly bombing.
"A terrorist left a car parked on the street corner and, when the bridegroom's family arrived in a convoy, he set off a bomb," he said.
A defence ministry official confirmed the blast, but said the attack was thought to have been a suicide bomb rather than a remote-controlled device.
Baghdad is in the grip of a deadly sectarian conflict between rival Sunni and Shi'ite factions which kills scores of people every day, despite a security operation involving 15 000 American and 40 000 Iraqi troops.
Meanwhile, Reuters reported that over 40 people were missing in mass kidnappings on minibuses north of Baghdad.
- AFP
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