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Dozens Dead in Iraq Violence

HeadlineApr 14, 2006

In Iraq, dozens of police officers are feared dead after their convoy was bombed north of Baghdad earlier today. At least six officers were killed. In other violence, at least eleven construction workers were murdered after they were abducted in Basra. Today’s deaths come a day after violence killed at least 52 people around Iraq. In Thursday’s deadliest incident, at least 15 people were killed and 25 wounded in car bombing of a market in a Shiite area of Baghdad.

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