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800 People Dead in Bridge Disaster

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by admin | August 31, 2005 at 9:02 pm UTC

More than 800 people were killed and over 320 injured in Baghdad today when Shia pilgrims panicked amid reports that a suicide bomber was in their midst.

The Iraqi defence minister, Saadoun al-Dulaimi, said 841 people had died and 328 were injured in a stampede on a bridge over the Tigris river.

Source: The Guardian.

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