At least 60 Iraqis were killed or found dead on Wednesday, including seven who died from injuries received in the previous day’s suicide bombing of a coffee shop in a Shiite district of Baghdad. Today, Iraqi police said a pair of mortar rounds slammed into a soccer field in Baghdad’s Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, killing at least eight players and bystanders. The mortars struck at just after 4:30 p.m. as a game was in progress between young men from the sprawling slum that is home to about 2.5 million people, a captain with the local police force, Mohammed Ismail, said. Full Story
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