AP: Death Toll Surges in Iraq Killings

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Death Toll Surges in Iraq Killings


Monday October 16, 2006 12:16 PM

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By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN

Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The death toll in a surge of sectarian killings in Balad
swelled to at least 91 on Monday, police and army officials said, while bombings
in and near Baghdad killed as many as up to 10 people. Eleven more bodies were
found dumped in the capital.

Two Marines and a soldier were killed in fighting Sunday, bringing to ten the
number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq over the past three days.

The Marines, assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5, were killed in fighting in
volatile Anbar province, while the soldier was killed when his vehicle was hit
by a roadside bomb outside Baghdad.

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A police officer in the nearby Sunni-dominated town of Duluiyah said members
of the Mahdi Army militia loyal to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr had moved
into the area and were killing Sunni men and boys.

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