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At least 132 people have been killed in a series of blasts in the Shia Sadr City area of the Iraqi capital, police and medical sources say.
Details are still sketchy, but a further 200 people were reportedly wounded in three car bombs and at least one mortar blast.
In one attack a car exploded at a food market which is a regular target of mainly Sunni Muslim insurgents.
Elsewhere, gunmen attacked the health ministry, sparking battles with guards.
In Sadr City, a car exploded in the Jamila food market, where eyewitnesses told reporters burned bodies and human flesh littered the ground.
bbc news
Originally posted by bodrul
At least 132 people have been killed in a series of blasts in the Shia Sadr City area of the Iraqi capital, police and medical sources say.
Details are still sketchy, but a further 200 people were reportedly wounded in three car bombs and at least one mortar blast.
In one attack a car exploded at a food market which is a regular target of mainly Sunni Muslim insurgents.
Elsewhere, gunmen attacked the health ministry, sparking battles with guards.
In Sadr City, a car exploded in the Jamila food market, where eyewitnesses told reporters burned bodies and human flesh littered the ground.
bbc news
132 killed and over 200 wounded
[edit on 23-11-2006 by bodrul]