13 killed in Baghdad as Iraq marks Saddam's fall

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BAGHDAD (AFP) — Fierce clashes and mortar attacks in Baghdad's Shiite bastion of Sadr City killed 13 people on Wednesday as Iraq marked the fifth anniversary of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

Iraqi officials said three mortar rounds slammed into Sadr City, the east Baghdad stronghold of anti-US Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, killing at least seven people and wounding 24.

One of the three rounds struck the rooftop of a house where a family was having breakfast, killing an adult and two children.

Clashes in the sprawling Shiite district of some two million people in the early hours killed another six people and wounded at least 15, a medic said.

Sadr City has been wracked by renewed fighting between Sadr's Mahdi Army militia and US and Iraqi forces...