Iraq Army Day celebrations marred by suicide bomb
Australian Herald Monday 7th January, 2008
A suicide attacker has exploded a device at the Iraqi Army Day celebrations.
Iraqi police said at least 11 people were killed in the blast, the deadliest in a series of bombings in Baghdad.
Shortly before the bomber struck, Iraqi soldiers, who were guarding an agency pushing for unity in Iraq, chanted an anti-insurgent taunt.
They were only metres away from the attacker who blew himself up at the same time as civilians came up to give flowers to the soldiers.
The street was littered with bodies, weapons and shoes.
Dazed soldiers and policemen carried their bloodied colleagues to nearby pickup trucks that whisked them to a hospital.
Among the dead were four police officers, three Iraqi soldiers and four civilians. At least 17 people were injured.
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