BAGHDAD, Nov 24 (Reuters) - The death toll from a series of car bombs in the Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad on Thursday rose to 202 with 250 more people wounded, Iraqi police said on Friday. Doctors had said many of the wounded were seriously injured and unlikely to survive. The attack was the worst since the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion and Baghdad was under curfew on Friday amid fears of revenge attacks.
Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh (3rd L) speaks during a news conference after a meeting of top government officials in Baghdad, November 26, 2006. Iraqi Prime Minister Buri al- Maliki made an urgent plea on Sunday to the rival sectarian factions in his national unity government to end disputes that he said were behind the bloodshed and crisis of recent days. Iraq's government officials from (L-R) are Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi, President Jalal Talabani, al-Dabbagh, Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki, and Deputy Prime Minister Salam al-Zobaie.
