BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb killed 34 people in Baghdad's Sadr City Shi'ite slum on Saturday as Iraq's minority Sunnis began the fasting month of Ramadan, which U.S. commanders said might see a rise in sectarian bloodshed.
The bomb -- most likely a car bomb, according to police -- struck near a tanker distributing kerosene for stoves in Sadr City, whose two million or more poor residents are the
power base of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mehdi Army militia.
In addition to the 34 people killed in Sadr City, 35 were injured, many badly burnt. Sunnis claimed responsibility, declaring the attack revenge for killings by Shi'ite militia.
THESE KINDS OF KILLINGS ARE GOING ON ALL THE WHILE.
2006-09-23
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