Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Tuesday in Iraq
Not much new to report.
At least 70 people were killed at largely Shiite university in northeast Baghdad on Tuesday when a wave of explosions tore through a crowd of students and employees leaving the school’s main gate minutes after classes ended....At least 169 people were injured by the blasts, according to an Interior Ministry official....Count them and bag them, it's business as usual.
....In Binouk, another Shiite area in northeast Baghdad, gunmen opened fire on Tuesday in crowded shopping area, killing 12 people and injuring another dozen. In Sadr City, a car bomb in a minibus killed at least six people.
At least 15 more people died and 70 were wounded by a pair of bombs in central Baghdad, not far from a Sunni mosque, Interior Ministry officials said. The mosque was not believed to be the target.
And two members of an elite police bomb-disposal unit and two civilians were killed in the Karada neighborhood when a bomb that the officers were trying to defuse exploded.
Meanwhile, the American military announced Tuesday that four soldiers were killed on Monday by a roadside bomb while on patrol in Nineveh province in northern Iraq.
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