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March 28, 2007

Dozens Killed as Gunmen Storm Tal Afar's Sunni District
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officials say they have received at least 45 bodies



Iraqi security officials say gunmen have stormed a Sunni district in
the northern town of Tal Afar, killing dozens of people in apparent
reprisal for Tuesday's deadly truck bombings in a Shi'ite area.

Hospital officials say they received at least 45 bodies.

Tuesday, two nearly simultaneous truck bombings killed at least 60
people and wounded more than 100 others in the town, near the Syrian
border.

Tal Afar has a mixed population of Shi'ites, Sunni Arabs and Turkmen.

In the western city of Fallujah, the U.S. military says suicide truck
bombers carrying toxic chlorine attacked the government center
Wednesday. The military says the attack was repulsed, but 15 U.S. and
Iraqi security personnel were wounded. Numerous Iraqi soldiers and
policemen were also treated for symptoms of chlorine inhalation.

Separately, the U.S. military said coalition forces captured 19
suspected terrorists in raids across Iraq Wednesday.

Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.


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