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Iraq market bombing kills 19
AFP - Thursday, June 11
NASIRIYAH, Iraq (AFP) - - A car bomb exploded in a market in a southern Iraqi town on Wednesday, killing 19 people including women and children in the bloodiest attack to hit the country in weeks.
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Fifty-six people were also wounded in the bombing in the town of Batha in the predominantly Shiite province of Dhiqar, according to the main hospital in the provincial capital Nasiriyah.
"The final toll is 19 dead and 56 injured," said Mohaned Abdul Redha, the hospital's chief of emergency services.
Although bombings remain common in the capital Baghdad and the restive northern city of Mosul, attacks in Dhiqar and its capital Nasiriyah are rare.
The blast in Batha, which lies 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Nasiriyah, came three weeks ahead of the planned June 30 withdrawal of US troops from Iraqi cities and major towns.
"Dozens of my friends were killed or injured, there was smoke everywhere," said 44-year-old grocer Hassan Ali, who suffered back and neck injuries.
"There was a big explosion -- it was an awful incident" added 31-year-old Farhan Fadel, whose leg was broken and his abdomen injured.
As is common in Iraq, the toll was revised lower from earlier figures which listed as many as 30 dead and 70 wounded, because of confusion in the immediate aftermath of the attack.
Batha's police chief was fired in the aftermath of the attack, and an inquiry has been launched to determine whether police could have prevented the bombing.
The number of casualties was the highest in a single attack since May 20, when a powerful car bomb tore through a Baghdad street full of diners, killing 40 people and wounding 83.
Batha town mayor Ali Fahad said "children and women" were among the dead.
An official at Nasiriyah General Hospital said at least two women and a nine-year-old child were among the dead.
The bombing followed an attack on Tuesday that killed two anti-Qaeda militiamen and wounded their commander in the town of Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad.
In another attack in the centre of the former rebel bastion of Fallujah west of Baghdad, five civilians were wounded when a bomb fixed to a parked motorcycle exploded.
Seven people were also killed and dozens wounded in Baghdad on Monday when a sticky bomb planted on a minibus exploded, security officials said.
May saw the fewest Iraqi deaths from violence since the US-led invasion of 2003, with 124 civilians, six soldiers and 25 policemen killed in attacks, according to official figures.
Despite a surge in violence in April, Iraq has insisted that the US pullout timetable, enshrined in a landmark security pact concluded with Washington in November last year, will not be altered.
The US military is scheduled to leave major urban areas by the end of this month in a key step ahead of a complete withdrawal by the end of 2011.
Recent attacks in Baghdad have mainly targeted Iraq's majority Shiite community, prompting speculation about a return of Al-Qaeda-style attacks aimed at reigniting the sectarianism that swept the country two years ago.
April saw a string of deadly bombings in Shiite and mixed neighbourhoods of Baghdad that were reminiscent of attacks that occurred at the height of Iraq's sectarian fighting in 2006.
At that time such bombings triggered reprisal attacks in which thousands of mostly Sunni men were abducted, tortured and executed, but the recent wave of bombings has not sparked sectarian fighting.
In January 2006, a suicide car bomber blew himself up next to a police training centre in Nasiriyah, killing two policemen and wounding 38 others, while a truck bomb attack in November 2003 killed 28 people, including 19 Italians.
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