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Attack on Iraqi Students Kills 1, Wounds 80

   02 May 2010
   A  wounded  Iraqi  woman  receives  medical  care at a hospital in the
   northern Iraqi city of Mosul

Photo: AFP

   A  wounded  Iraqi  woman  receives  medical  care at a hospital in the
   northern  Iraqi  city  of  Mosul, after a double bomb attack targeting
   buses carrying Christian students and university workers near Mosul in
   killed a shopkeeper and wounded 80 other people, 02 May 2010

   Iraqi  police  say two bombs apparently targeting Christian university
   students  have  killed  one man and wounded about 80 other people near
   the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

   Authorities  say  an  improvised  explosive  device  and  a  car  bomb
   detonated  near  buses carrying the students from the mainly Christian
   town of Hamdaniyah to the university of Mosul Sunday.

   Police say a shopkeeper died in the attack.

   Iraqi  insurgents  have  targeted  Christians  and  other  minorities,
   prompting  Human Rights Watch earlier this year to urge authorities to
   do more to protect those groups.

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

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