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IRAQI DEATHS - ONE DAY'S MAYHEM - JULY 1, 2006
We couldn't let this day's report go unacknowledged...

In a single day, on July 1, 2006, we ran across the following reports of at least 99 deaths of Iraqi citizens, gathered from various sources (each report is linked):

Baghdad:

#1: car bomb tore through a market in a poor Shi'ite district of Baghdad on Saturday, killing 62 people and wounding 114 in the bloodiest attack in Iraq for three months, police and Interior Ministry sources said. Police said the market bomb went off in mid-morning as a police patrol was passing a parked car in a market area of the capital's eastern Sadr City district, a stronghold of the Mehdi Army militia of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

#2: A roadside bomb struck an Iraqi police commando patrol in central Baghdad on Saturday morning, killing three commando members, an Interior Ministry source said. A roadside bomb went off near a police commando patrol near a cinema in Baghdad's Alawi neighborhood, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The blast damaged a police vehicle, killing the three commando members aboard, and caused damages in the nearby buildings and shops, the source said.

#3: Four bodies were also found around the city.

#4: Iraqi police also found a grave of several men who were apparently shot to death more than a month ago in Baghdad. Lt. Thaer Mahmoud said police had recovered at least six badly decomposed bodies in the grave, located in a Baghdad area notorious for sectarian killings.

#5: Police said they had found six bodies dumped inside a house under construction in the violent southern Baghdad district of Dora.

Baqubah:

#1: A former senior police officer under Saddam Hussein's regime was killed in a drive-by shooting as he was leaving his house in Baqouba. Gunmen also opened fire on a barber shop in Baqouba, wounding four people, including two children.

Diyala province:

#1: Gunmen kidnapped a Sunni Arab lawmaker and seven of her bodyguards in a mostly Shi'ite Baghdad neighbourhood on Saturday, a Sunni leader and police said. Taiseer Najah al-Mashhadani, a member of the Accordance Front, the largest parliamentary bloc of the Sunni minority, was abducted in northeastern Shaab district after gunmen in two cars cut off her convoy, police said. An eighth bodyguard managed to escape, they added. Adnan al-Dulaimi, head of the Accordance Front, said Mashhadani was driving from her native Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, to the capital when she was kidnapped.

Kirkuk:

#1: Iraqi soldiers found the bodies of three soldiers who were abducted Friday, as well as an unidentified man, near the northern city of Kirkuk. Two other soldiers were still missing.

#2: Gunmen killed a policeman in a drive-by shooting in the center of Kirkuk.

Mosul:

#1: A suicide car bomber killed two policemen and wounded six people, including three women, when he attacked a police patrol in the northern city of Mosul, police said.

#2: Clashes between police and insurgents killed one civilian and wounded a policeman in Mosul, hospital sources said.

Fallujah:

#1: Gunmen shot dead a policeman in Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

Ramadi:

#1: A suicide car bomber attacked a joint Iraqi and U.S. military checkpoint in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, police said. There were no details on casualties and no comment was immediately available from the U.S. military.

Khafajiya:

#1: Five people were killed and 12 wounded when an explosion, apparently caused by a mortar, destroyed three houses in the village of Khafajiya, just outside the western city of Haditha, local residents said.

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