Baghdad Under Curfew After Attacks

2006-11-24

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi capital was locked down by an indefinite curfew Friday, November 24, after more than 200 people were killed by a wave of bombings in a Shiite slum in by far the deadliest attack since the start of the occupation war in 2003.

PHOTO A relative reacts while taking part in a funeral procession for a victim of Sadr City's attacks.

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The bloodshed continued Friday when a triple bomb attack in the northern town of Tal Afar killed 22 people and wounded another 42, Reuters reported.

Iraqi Shiites, many weeping, collected bodies of the victims of Thursday's bomb attacks in Baghdad's Sadr City and headed under police protection to the southern shrine city of Najaf for mass burials. (MORE)
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U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL, GREATLY DISMAYED AT RECENT WAVE OF TERRORIST ATTACKS IN IRAQ, CONDEMNs ACTS IN STRONGEST TERMS, URGES RESTRAINT TO PREVENT ESCALATION
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