68 Iraqis, 17 Kids, Killed in Basra
68 Iraqis were killed, 17 of them children on schoolbuses, in the southern Iraqi city of Basra today.
Suicide bombers killed at least 68 people, 17 of them children incinerated in minibuses taking them to school, in coordinated strikes on police stations in Iraq's southern city of Basra on Wednesday.
Basra is a stronghold of Iraq's Shi'ite majority. It had been relatively quiet lately. President Bush has blamed al Qaeda for the deaths.
The Guardian has more.
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