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10 People Killed, 14 Wounded Death Toll Rises To 90 From Yesterdays Mosque Bombing, 4 Headless Bodies Found

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb killed six people Saturday near a Shiite shrine south of Baghdad, and the death toll from the deadliest attack of the year rose to nearly 90. A senior official warned Iraq was in an "undeclared civil war" that can be curbed only by a strong government and greater powers for security services.

The car bomb exploded at a small shrine in the Euphrates River town of Musayyib, 40 miles south of Baghdad. Police said most of the six dead and 14 wounded were Shiite pilgrims visiting the shrine.

Fears of more attacks are running high in Shiite areas following the Thursday car bombing that killed 10 in the Shiite holy city of Najaf and the suicide attack the following day against a Shiite mosque in Baghdad _ the deadliest attack in Iraq this year.

In other developments Saturday:

_ Police found four headless bodies showing signs of torture that were dumped on a farm about 20 miles north of Baghdad.

_ A mortar round hit a house near the Education Ministry in central Baghdad, killing two men, police said.

_Gunmen killed a Shiite cigarette vendor and police found the body of a man killed by a roadside bomb near a highway.





Have a nice evening.

posted by Wink @ 8:21 PM