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Share a moment for the 1000 People killed in Iraq today.
Please share a moment to think of the poor innocent people indirectly murdered by terrorists in Iraq today. They were at a celebrating a religious festival and some evil people started shooting and also spread a rumour that there were suicide bombers in the crowd so everyone ran and the bridge they were on collapsed and up to 1000 people got crushed to death, drowned and suffocated in the stampede. They were mostly women and children. I dont think anyone deserves to die this way for any reason.
As many as 1,000 people may have died in a stampede of Shia pilgrims in northern Baghdad, Iraqi health officials have said.
The incident happened on a river bridge as about a million Shias marched to a shrine for a religious festival.
Witnesses said panic spread over rumours of suicide bombers.
Radical Sunni groups have often targeted Shias in the past, but Iraqi officials said the tragedy had nothing to do with sectarian tension.
Many victims, mostly women, children or elderly, were crushed or drowned.
So far, there have been at least 695 confirmed deaths.
Earlier, mortar rounds had been fired into the crowd, killing at least seven people.
About 36 others were injured when four mortar rounds landed close to the Kadhimiya mosque.
A Sunni group said it carried out the mortar attacks, according to a statement posted on a website frequently used by groups linked to al-Qaeda.
"The mujahedeen of the Jaysh al-Taifa al-Mansoura (Army of the Victorious Sect) fired mortars and Katyusha rockets at the bastion of the infidels and apostates ... to punish the genocides committed against Sunnis," it said.
There were also reports that some worshippers had been poisoned.
Iraqis are preparing to vote on a proposed constitution for their country, with Shia and Sunnis sharply divided on its contents.
Wednesday is the last day the majority of Iraqis can register to vote in October's referendum.
Panic
Iraqi Defence Minister Saadun al-Dulaim said that the only people to die at the hands of insurgents were the seven killed in the mortar attack.
"What happened has nothing at all to do with any sectarian tension," he said live on Iraqi TV.
"People swarmed the bridge. There had to be a search operation at the end of the bridge, so crowds gathered and a certain scream caused chaos in the crowds and the crowds just reacted and this sorrowful incident took place."
Officials had earlier suggested that someone in the crowd deliberately triggered the stampede by saying they had seen a suicide bomber.
BBC Middle East analyst Roger Hardy says that, because of radical Sunni attacks on big Shia gatherings in the past, it was not unreasonable for the worshippers to be nervous.
Television pictures showed large crowds of Shia pilgrims heading towards the Kadhimiya mosque to mark the martyrdom of the 8th Century religious figure Imam Musa al-Kadhim.
During the crush, iron railings on the Aima bridge leading to the shrine gave way and hundreds of people fell into the water.
The bridge links the staunchly Sunni area of Adhamiya on the east bank of the Tigris and the Shia area of Kadhimiya on the west bank.
Mourning
Thousands rushed to the banks of the River Tigris to search for survivors. Young men stripped off their shirts and waded into the muddy water to retrieve bodies floating downstream.
The incident has caused the single biggest loss of Iraqi life since the US-led invasion in 2003.
As the number of dead and injured continued to rise, Baghdad's hospitals struggled to cope, with many bodies and injured people left lying in corridors and on pavements outside.
The government has declared three days of mourning.
That is a shocking news. 1000 people dead!. I don't understand and i never gone understand what such people want to prove with such acts?. I really hate them.
08-31-2005, 04:47 PM
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