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Baghdad wedding blast kills 15
31 Oct 2006 15:04:18 GMT
Source: Reuters

(Updates with death toll)

BAGHDAD, Oct 31 (Reuters) - A car bomb ripped through a wedding procession in northeastern Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people, including four children, Interior Ministry and police sources said.

Another 19 people were wounded when the blast struck a convoy of vehicles celebrating a wedding in the religiously mixed district of Ur.

The target of the attack, which one Interior Ministry source said was carried out by a suicide car bomber, was not clear.

Sunni Arab Islamist militant groups including al Qaeda use car bombs against civilians in Shi'ite and mixed areas in Iraq under a campaign U.S. and Iraqi officials say is meant to spark a sectarian civil war.

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