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58 Die in Suicide Attack

From the London Times Online:

A SUICIDE bomber brought carnage to the small town of Musayyib south of Baghdad last night when he triggered a huge explosion in a fuel tanker, killing at least 58 people and injuring 86, writes Imre Karacs.

According to witnesses and police, a fuel tanker was moving slowly towards the pumps at a petrol station outside a Shi’ite mosque when the attacker ran up to it and detonated the explosives strapped to his body.

But it doesn't quite grab you until this sentence:

Some residents who rushed to the scene made gruesome discoveries in the blazing wreckage. “After the bomb I went over there and found my son’s head. I could not find his body,” said Mohsen Jassim, whose son was 18.

Mind you, we see no pictures of the war in Iraq on the nightly news. Not the real pictures anyway.

posted by niteskolar @ 3:03 PM