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Scattered Violence Erupts in Iraq
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Sunday, September 12, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Mortar Attacks and Clashes Leave at Least 80 Civilians Dead
By Jackie Spinner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 12, 2004; 5:31 PM
BAGHDAD, Sept. 12 -- Car bombings, mortar attacks and clashes between insurgents and U.S. and Iraqi security forces killed at least 80 civilians across the country Sunday, Iraqi officials said.
In Baghdad, the scene of some of the most intense fighting in months, at least 27 people were killed and 107 wounded.
A U.S. military helicopter fired into a crowd of civilians who had surrounded a burning Army armored vehicle, killing 13 people, said Saad Amili, spokesman for the Health Ministry. A Palestinian journalist reporting from the scene for the Arab satellite network al-Arabiya was among those killed.
The U.S. military said it was trying to scatter looters who were attempting to make off with ammunition and pieces of the Bradley fighting vehicle, which had been hit by car bomb early this morning on Haifa Street, a troublesome north-south artery west of the Tigris River. |
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