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July 24, 2007

Suicide Car Bomber Kills 26 People in Iraq
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=183EB46:A6F02AD83191E1601BCA21B84B139DA79574F7DCC14957C0 More than 70 were
injured in attack that occurred in commercial district in southern
town of Hillah





Iraqi soldiers search a suspect car at a checkpoint on the Sinak's
bridge in Baghdad, 24 July 2007

Iraqi police say a suicide car bomber has killed at least 26 people
and wounded about 70 others in the southern town of Hillah.

Authorities say the blast Tuesday went off near a hospital in a
commercial district. Many of the dead are said to be women and
children. Hillah is 100 kilometers south of Baghdad.

In other news, the U.S. military said coalition forces detained 20
suspected terrorists Tuesday in raids targeting al-Qaida in Iraq
operations north of Baghdad.

The military said one of those detained is a foreign terrorist
suspected of involvement in a suicide truck bomb attack in May in the
town of Samarra. The statement did not say where the suspect is from.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP.


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