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Baghdad Blasts Claim Nearly 200 LIives

Posted Apr 19, 07 7:35 AM CDT in World,  US 

(Newser) – Nearly 200 people were killed, and more than 200 injured, by five apparently coordinated explosions that rocked Baghdad yesterday. It was the deadliest day since the U.S. troop surge in the besieged capital, and a chilling backdrop to an announcement by PM al-Maliki that Iraqis will be completely in charge of the country by 2008.

The deadliest attack was in a market in Sadriya, where 140 people were killed—many of them laborers cleaning up after a previous explosion. Iraqis expressed continuing frustration:  "How is it that everyone knows where these killers are coming from, yet nobody can do anything to stop them?" one shopkeeper asked.

Source Guardian (UK)

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Firefighters respond to the attack   (Associated Press)
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A victim is carried away a parked car bomb detonated in Sadriyah market, killing 112 people and injuring 94 others, in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 18, 2007. Four large bombs exploded across Baghdad...   (Associated Press)
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