URGENT / Suicide blast leaves 65 casualties in Baghdad
January 2, 2009 - 02:14:04
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Twenty-three civilians were killed and at least 42 others wounded when a wanted suicide bomber attacked a reconciliation conference in the southern Baghdad area of al-Yousufiya on Friday, according to the Baghdad Operations Command.
“The bomber blew himself up inside Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Saleh al-Karghouli’s house, where a reconciliation meeting was being held in al-Yousufiya area, southern Baghdad,” BOC spokesman, Maj. General Qassem Atta, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
“A man of the name Amin al-Karghouli, a wanted man on charges of several charges, managed to sneak his way into the house and blow himself up,” Atta added.
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