New bloody day in Iraq
Iraq, Military, 11/19/2005

Yesterday, two suicide explosions targeted two Shiite mosques in Khanqin town northeast of Baghdad resulted in killing 77 persons at least and wounding other 150.

One official in Deyali governorate said that a large number of bodies of the dead are still under the ruins and can not be removed.

At least 6 persons were killed including two children and other 40 injured when two booby trapped cars were exploded near a hotel used by foreigners in al-Jadereyah quarters in the center of Baghdad.

The chairman of the higher Shiite council in Iraq, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, asked the participants in the Iraqi national reconciliation conference meeting in Cairo, Egypt, to condemn the "terrorist operations" in Baghdad and Khanqin.

Also assassinated in al-Baya and al-Ridwaneyah areas south of Baghdad were Sheikh Abdul Wahab Abdul Razzaq, preacher of "Imam Ali Husenieh" in al-Sweib area south of Baghdad together with his driver when bullet fire opened at them on the highway.

In al-Ramadi, 110 km west of Baghdad, medical sources said that three civilians were killed and other five during clashes between the American forces and gunmen and three civilians were injured when one booby trapped car went off near an American vehicle in Kanaan area, close to Baqouba, 65 to the north of Baghdad.

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