Nearly 100 Killed In Baghdad Over 24 Brutal Hours

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Scores of Corpses Dumped in Streets
Thursday, September 14, 2006

Nearly 100 people were killed or found dead in the Iraqi capital over the past 24 hours, authorities said Wednesday, continuing a wave of sectarian violence that has defied American efforts to thwart the carnage.

Sixty-two bullet-riddled corpses -- some of them beheaded and all bearing signs of torture -- had been found dumped in streets throughout the city since Tuesday night, said Brig. Gen. Abdullah Mahmood of the Interior Ministry. Bombings and mortar attacks targeting Iraqi police killed an additional 26 people Wednesday morning.

In the deadliest attack, a car bomb exploded at 9 a.m. near an indoor stadium in Baghdad, killing 12 traffic policemen and wounding 13, Mahmood said. As a crowd swarmed the scene to aid the wounded, another bomb went off, killing seven civilians and injuring 47.

Mortar shells slammed into a police station in the Mashtal area of eastern Baghdad and a security forces recruiting center near an airfield in the central part of the capital, the Interior Ministry said. Seven people were killed, and 19 were wounded.
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