Reply #12: Iraq violence slaughters 62

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Source: Agence France-Presse

Iraq violence slaughters 62

by Abdelamir Hanun
1 hour, 44 minutes ago

KARBALA, Iraq (AFP) - A suicide car bomb killed 34 people near
a revered Shiite shrine in Iraq's pilgrimage city of Karbala on
Saturday, exactly two months after troops launched a security
crackdown in Baghdad.

Another suicide attack killed 10 people in the capital, while
other violence left 18 more people dead, pushing the death toll
to 62 in the latest carnage to undermine the Iraqi-US security
offensive as it headed into a third month.

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Eighteen more people were killed in other violence across the
country on Saturday.

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