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  • 58 dead in attack south of Baghdad (No US casualties in attack)

    07/16/2005 12:22:54 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 61 replies · 2,534+ views
    CNN NEWS.COM ^ | JULY 16, 2005 | Staff
    A fuel tanker detonated near a gas station south of Baghdad and killed 58 people, a bloody incident police are calling an attack. The strike -- which occurred in Musayyab, in a volatile stretch in Babil province about 45 miles south of the capital -- also wounded 86 people, police said. Police say the blast destroyed a neighboring apartment complex and damaged a Shiite mosque and surrounding businesses. Violence earlier in day Before the tanker explosion, three British soldiers were killed early Saturday in hostile action in southern Iraq and suicide bombers killed at least 10 people, officials said. The...