Friday, August 17, 2007

Desperate search for survivors among Yazidi homes destroyed by bombers



By Patrick Cockburn

Published: 16 August 2007

Rescuers tore with their bare hands at the wreckage of mud-brick houses in the Sinjar district of northern Iraq yesterday where five vehicle-born bombs have killed at least 200 people and injured 300. The casualties may rise to make the atrocity the worst single bombing of a civilian target in Iraq in the past four years. All the victims were Yazidis, members of a pre-Islamic sect, many of whom live in this part of northern Iraq. full text

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