Death Toll in Suicide Attack on Baghdad Wedding Party Rises to 23
01 November 2006
Iraqi officials say the death toll from a suicide car bomb attack on a Shi'ite wedding in Baghdad on Tuesday has risen to 23.
Nine children were among those killed in the blast, which occurred outside a house in northern Baghdad as wedding guests gathered for a reception. Eleven people were killed on the spot, and 12 others later died of their wounds.
Seperately, Iraqi police say they found the bodies of at least eight people in Baghdad Wednesday.
In another development, the U.S. military says an American soldier was killed in combat Tuesday in western Iraq's Anbar province. The death raises to 104 the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq in October, making it the fourth deadliest month for American troops since the Iraq invasion in 2003.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military says a coalition air strike destroyed a bomb-making factory used by insurgents south of Baghdad.
A military statement says coalition troops located the factory with the help of local residents, and called in the air strike early this Wednesday morning. Ground troops later found explosives and as many as 80 barrels of unknown chemicals at the site.
In a separate incident Tuesday, the U.S. military says coalition forces killed one militant and captured another during a raid on the town of Balad, north of Baghdad. The military says the raid targeted an associate of a senior al-Qaida in Iraq leader.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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