Two civilians killed in Baghdad violence, 11 corpses found
9/8/2007 16:45
Two civilians were killed and 15 others wounded in mortar and bomb attacks
in Baghdad yesterday, while the Iraqi police collected 11 bodies from the
capital streets, an Interior Ministry source said.
A civilian was killed and
two others injured when a mortar round landed on a residential area in Baghdad's
southern district of Baiyaa, the source told Xinhua on condition of
anonymity.
Another civilian was killed in a mortar attack on the Abu Dsheer
neighborhood in southern part of the capital, the source said.
Eight more
civilians were wounded when mortar attacks targeted two areas in Baghdad's Doura
district, he added.
In western part of the capital, three Iraqi soldiers were
wounded in a roadside bomb attack near their patrol in the 14th Ramadan Street
in Mansour neighborhood, the source said.
Also on Wednesday, Iraqi police
patrols picked up 11 unidentified bodies in the capital, including 10 in the
Karkh area on the west part of the Tigris River that bisects the Iraqi capital,
according to the source.
The bullet-riddled bodies were bound, blindfolded,
showing signs of torture, he said.
The violence came despite the Iraqi
government imposed three- day of vehicle ban on Baghdad to protect Shiite
pilgrims expected to converge on the shrine of Imam Mussa al-Kadhim in the next
few days.
On Tuesday, Baghdad's top military spokesman, Brigadier General
Qassim Moussawi, had said that the vehicle ban would start at 10: 00 p.m. (1800
GMT) on Wednesday but it was extended to be enforced from 5:00 a.m. (0100 GMT)
on early Wednesday morning.
The Iraqi authorities expected that dozens of
thousands of Iraqi Shiite pilgrims and others from Iran and other countries
would take part in the annual pilgrimage to the tomb of the seventh of the
twelve most revered Shiite Imams who was killed in the eighth century.
Two
years ago, nearly 1,000 pilgrims making their way to the same ceremony died in a
stampede on a bridge across the Tigris when there were rumors of a suicide
bomber in the crowd.
xinhua
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