Funeral bombing dents Iraqis' New Year cheer
AFP, January, 2008
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BAGHDAD (AFP) — A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people at a Baghdad funeral on Tuesday, denting hopes of more peaceful 2008 which had seen New Year's Eve street parties in the Iraqi capital for the first time since the 2003 invasion.
Another 30 people were wounded when the bomber detonated his charge in the midst of the crowd of mourners in the eastern Zayuna neighbourhood in the late afternoon, an interior ministry official said.
It was a deadly reminder of the dangers still facing Iraq in the new year despite reduced bloodshed in the second half of 2007.
Violent deaths among Iraqis fell to a 22-month low in December, figures obtained from the defence, interior and health ministries showed.
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The 568 deaths -- 480 civilians, 24 soldiers and 64 police -- showed a continuing fall from the previous month's figures -- 606 in November, 887 in ...
