Mortar Blast Kills 3 Kids, Uncle in Iraq

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD, Iraq Jun 1, 2005 — A mortar barrage killed three children and their uncle as they played together outside their south Baghdad home, the latest deaths in an insurgency that claimed a total of six lives Wednesday and showed no signs of slowing down.

Twelve-year-old Sabaa Haitham, her younger brother Sajjad, 10, and their 8-year-old cousin Mina Mohammed Abid died when one of two mortar rounds slammed into their home in suburban Dora, Yarmouk hospital morgue official Razzak Hassan said.

The children's uncle, Lu'ay Salih, in his mid-20s, was also killed in the 6 p.m. explosions that peppered their victims with razor sharp pieces of incandescent shrapnel.


"What have those kids done to deserve this? They were just playing in the front yard," said grieving Haitham Salih, father of Sabaa and Sajjad, outside his demolished house. "It's a disaster I lost two of my children, my brother and my niece."

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more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=810497&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

[leftchick]

1. I saw the photo of dead Sabaa outside the morgue on Yahoo

:cry:

[bemildred]

2. Yeah, what can you say, what can you do?

:cry: