A suicide bomber attacked a crowd of people waiting outside a heavily guarded court building in Baghdad on Thursday, killing 10 Iraqis and wounding dozens, police said. Nearly all the casualties were civilians, many of whom were meeting outside the building with paralegals to write petitions they planned to submit in court, said police Lt. Thair Mahmoud. The blast occurred in a mixed Sunni-Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Mahmoud said. It was powerful enough to smash the windows of some nearby shops. Firefighters rushed to the scene and used hoses to clean blood stains from the sidewalk and street outside the court. Full Story
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