Mortar attack kills 10 in east Baghdad - police

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Source: Reuters

A mortar attack killed 10 people and wounded 28 more in the Shi'ite eastern Baghdad district of al-Obeidi on Sunday, police said.

At least four mortar rounds fell in al-Obeidi, which is close to Sadr City, a sprawling Shi'ite slum and stronghold of powerful anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

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1. Update

Eleven people have been killed and 31 injured by a mortar attack on a mainly Shia eastern suburb of Baghdad, security officials say.

Women and children are among the dead and wounded and a number of houses were damaged in the area, which is close to the giant Shia slum of Sadr City.

Iraqi leaders are in talks this weekend to resolve a crisis which has left nearly half the cabinet posts empty.

Shia leaders have met Sunni and Kurdish figures to try and end the infighting.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6953616.stm

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2. Baghdad mortar attack kills 10, clashes reported

Source: Reuters

Baghdad mortar attack kills 10, clashes reported
19 Aug 2007 12:03:48 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Paul Tait

BAGHDAD, Aug 19 (Reuters) - A mortar attack killed
10 people on Sunday in a Shi'ite district of eastern
Baghdad where witnesses reported clashes between
U.S. forces and Shi'ite militiamen.

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At least four mortar rounds fell in al-Obeidi, which
is close to Sadr City, a sprawling Shi'ite slum and
stronghold of powerful anti-American cleric Moqtada
al-Sadr and his Mehdi Army militia. More than 40
other people were hurt.

Al-Obeidi residents reported clashes between U.S.
forces and the Mehdi Army in the area after at least
one U.S. vehicle had been attacked by a roadside
bomb during a patrol a day earlier.

Police and residents said those clashes appeared to
be separate to the mortar attack in a different area
of al-Obeidi.

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