Three Shiite Mosques Bombed in Baghdad...50+ killed...

[RedEarth]

BAGHDAD, April 7 -- Explosions tore through three Shiite Muslim mosques in Baghdad on Friday as hundreds of worshipers were at prayer.

Initial reports from police put the death toll at 50 or more

Post reporter at the scene said what sounded like three mortars hit the largest of the mosques, Burratha. Police reported seven dead and 18 wounded in that explosion. Police fired wildly into the air as pickup trucks hauled away the dead and wounded.

Across Baghdad, suicide attackers blew themselves up among worshipers at two other Shiite mosques, said Baha Araji, a top aide to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad.

The bombers hit two heavily Shiite neighborhoods, Shoula in the north and New Baghdad in the east, Araji said.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/07/AR2006040700548.html