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Blasts target Tal Afar marketplace

Oct-11-2005 » Filed Under: Iraq News

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents determined to wreck Iraq’s upcoming constitutional referendum killed more than 40 people and wounded dozens in several attacks Tuesday, including a suicide car bomb that ripped apart a crowded market in a town near the Syrian border.

U.S. and Iraqi officials have repeatedly warned that the insurgents would step up their attacks to undermine Saturday’s vote, a crucial step in Iraq’s democratic transition.

In the deadliest attack in nearly two weeks, a suicide car bomb exploded at about 11 a.m. in a crowded open market in the northwestern town of Tal Afar, killing 30 Iraqis and wounding 45, said Brig. Najim Abdullah, Tal Afar’s police chief. U.S and Iraqi forces routed insurgents in a major offensive there last month.

He said all the victims appeared to be civilians since no Iraqi or U.S. forces were in the center of Tal Afar, which is 260 miles northwest of Baghdad.


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