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April 18, 2007
And It Continues...
4 Bombs Kill at Least 127 People in Baghdad
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Four large bombs exploded across Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 127 people and wounding scores as violence climbed toward levels seen before the U.S.-Iraqi campaign to pacify the capital began two months ago.
In the deadliest of the attacks, a parked car bomb detonated in a crowd of workers at the Sadriyah market in central Baghdad, killing at least 82 people and wounding 94, said Raad Muhsin, an official at Al-Kindi Hospital where the victims were taken....
Among the dead were several construction workers who had been rebuilding the mostly Shiite marketplace after a bombing destroyed many shops and killed 137 people there in February, the police official said....
UPDATE: The death toll has risen to 160 now.
UPDATE: Perhaps even more, over 170.
Posted by jnfr at April 18, 2007 08:14 AM