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The death toll rose to 35 in double suicide blast which struck a wedding convoy Thursday evening in northeast of Baghdad, and 76 others were wounded, police said. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)
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BAGHDAD, May 1 (Xinhua) -- The death toll rose to 35
in double suicide blast which struck a wedding convoy Thursday evening in
northeast of Baghdad, and 76 others were wounded, police said.
The two suicide bombers, one of them a female, blew
themselves off as a wedding convoy passed by a main street in the town of Balad
Ruz, 30 km east of Baquba, the capital city of the restive Diyala province.
Police said the first female bomber blew herself up
in front of the wedding convoy, and the second bomber went off as people nearby
gathered to help the wounded.
Diyala province, which stretches from northeastern
edges of Baghdad to the Iranian border, has long been the stronghold of al-Qaida
militant groups and hotbed of insurgency and sectarian violence since the
U.S.-led invasion broke out in 2003.
Up to 1,073 Iraqis killed in
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A man carries a child who was wounded
during an air strike into a hospital in Baghdad's Sadr City May 1,
2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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BAGHDAD, May 1 (Xinhua) -- The death toll of Iraqis across
the country climbed to 1,073 people mostly by fierce clashes between Sadr's
followers and U.S.-backed Iraqi security forces, a security source said on
Thursday.
Figures compiled by Iraqi Interior, Defense and Heath
ministries, showed that 966 civilians and 107 security members were killed
nationwide, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. Full story
Iraqi PM renews vow to disband
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
speaks during a news conference in Baghdad April 30, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters
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BAGHDAD, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri
al-Maliki confirmed on Wednesday his vow to disband all the armed groups,
including Shiite Mahdi Army militia, whom he accused of using civilians as
"human shields" in fightings in Sadr City.
"We will not stop until we take all the weapons from them
ilitia and disband Mahdi Army and Sunni insurgent groups like Islamic Army and
Omer Army," Maliki said in a press conference in Baghdad. Full story
