Violence continues in Iraq

Sat., May 7, 2005

Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Insurgent car bombs struck a market and a police bus Friday, killing at least 25 people, and a dozen bodies were uncovered in a garbage dump on the outskirts of Baghdad – some victims blindfolded and shot execution-style.

Also Friday, Iraqi militants holding an Australian engineer hostage issued a 72-hour ultimatum for Australia to start pulling its troops out of Iraq.

The latest insurgent attacks were part of a surge in violence that has killed more than 270 people – many of them Iraqi soldiers and police – since Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari announced his new government April 28.

The bodies, the latest in a series of gruesome finds, were discovered by scavengers sifting through garbage for scrap metal and other items to sell at a dump on Baghdad’s northeastern outskirts, police and soldiers said.

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