Iraq market massacre leaves 48 dead (coordinated bomb attacks)
by Salam Faraj Mon Jul 17, 11:57 AM ET
BAGHDAD (AFP) - A deadly coordinated assault of car bombs, mortar rounds and a shooting rampage by masked gunmen on a market south of Baghdad has killed 48 people believed to be Shiites, including women and children.
Police also found 22 bodies across
Iraq, 20 of them in Baghdad, of men tortured and shot dead in apparent sectarian attacks as the inter-confessional violence that has dogged Iraq for the past months showed no sign of abating.
The latest violence came a day after a suicide bombing in a coffee-shop in the northern town of Tuz Khurmatu killed 28 people.
Major General Abdel Aziz Mohammed, head of defence ministry's operation centre, told reporters Monday that the onslaught on the market in the town of Mahmudiyah comprised "two car bombs, followed by four mortars slamming into the market which were then followed by armed men randomly shooting in the market."
Iraqi security sources said armed men in several cars sprayed bullets at civilians and shops as they drove through the main market street of Mahmudiyah, giving a casualty toll of at least 48 dead and 46 wounded.
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BAGHDAD (AFP) - A deadly coordinated assault of car bombs, mortar rounds and a shooting rampage by masked gunmen on a market south of Baghdad has killed 48 people believed to be Shiites, including women and children.
Police also found 22 bodies across
Iraq, 20 of them in Baghdad, of men tortured and shot dead in apparent sectarian attacks as the inter-confessional violence that has dogged Iraq for the past months showed no sign of abating.
The latest violence came a day after a suicide bombing in a coffee-shop in the northern town of Tuz Khurmatu killed 28 people.
Major General Abdel Aziz Mohammed, head of defence ministry's operation centre, told reporters Monday that the onslaught on the market in the town of Mahmudiyah comprised "two car bombs, followed by four mortars slamming into the market which were then followed by armed men randomly shooting in the market."
Iraqi security sources said armed men in several cars sprayed bullets at civilians and shops as they drove through the main market street of Mahmudiyah, giving a casualty toll of at least 48 dead and 46 wounded.
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