Baghdad, 2007 Aug 15, IRIB
At least 175 people were slaughtered and more than 200 wounded on Tuesday with four suicide truck bombs, officials said.
The brutal attacks came just hours after gunmen dressed in local security uniforms kidnapped Iraq's Deputy Oil Minister Abdel Jabar al-Wagga in a brazen daylight raid on a Baghdad compound.
In one of the bloodiest single incidents of the four-year-old war in Iraq, bombers detonated four explosive-laden trucks in two villages in the northern province of Nineveh.
The attacks in the villages of al-Khataniyah and al-Adnaniyah killed at least 175 people and wounded more than 200, according to both Iraqi Army Spokesman Captain Mohammed al-Obeidi and Dakhil Qassim Hassun, Mayor of the Sinjar Municipality. |
