Multiple Attacks in Iraq Kill 37 Iraqis, 2 British Soldiers
28 February 2006
At least 37 Iraqis were killed Tuesday in the latest violence since one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines was bombed last Wednesday.
Most of Tuesday's carnage was in Baghdad, where bomb blasts killed 28 civilians in central and eastern parts of the capital.
To the north, nine bullet-riddled bodies were found off a road near Baquba. And in Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit, a bomb damaged the mosque built over the grave of the ousted dictator's father.
Two British soldiers were also killed in Amara, south of Baghdad.
Iraqi officials say more than 30 insurgents have been killed and over 400 others arrested since last Wednesday's bombing of a the Askariya mosque in Samarra.
The Iraqi government says 379 people have died in sectarian violence since then. But The Washington Post reports that according to Baghdad's main morgue more than 1,300 people were killed.
As of Monday, the Washington Post newspaper said hundreds of bodies were still unclaimed at the morgue, which it said was filled with "blood-caked [bodies of] men who had been shot, knifed, garroted or apparently suffocated by the plastic bags still over their heads."
Although efforts to form a new government have now been delayed, some Sunni politicians are indicating talks could resume if Sunni mosques allegedly seized by Shi'ite militants are returned to them.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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