More murder of innocent civilians.
Suicide bombers kill 45 in market attackPOSTED: 1:38 p.m. EST, February 1, 2007
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Two suicide bombers blew themselves up Thursday in a crowded outdoor market in a Shiite city south of Baghdad, killing 45 people and wounding 150, police said.
The attackers walked into the Maktabat outdoor market in the center of Hilla, 60 miles south of Baghdad, about 6 p.m. as shoppers were buying food for their evening meals. Police thought one of the men appeared suspicious and stopped him, according to police.
The bomber detonated his explosives and was followed by the second attacker, who was walking behind him, police added.
Hilla was the scene of one of the deadliest attacks in the war, when a suicide car bomber killed 125 people on February 28, 2005.
Sectarian violence continued in Baghdad on Thursday, with bombings and mortar attacks killing at least 17 people.
A parked car bomb exploding at a bus stop near a busy shopping area around Rusafi Square on Rashid Street in central Baghdad, killing six people and wounding 12, police said.
A bomb also ripped the roof off a minibus in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Karradah, another popular shopping area, killing six people and wounding eight, police said.
The bombings came hours after mortar rounds slammed into the Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah for the third day in a row, killing at least five people and wounding 12, hospital and police officials said.
The mortars struck about a kilometer from the revered Sunni Abu Hanifa mosque. . . .
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