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Joshua Partlow and Naseer Nouri Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, July 28, 2006; Page A16 BAGHDAD, July 27 -- The white sheet that was to cover his wedding bed was wrapped around his coffin. The drums and trumpets that might have heralded the marriage of Hassan al-Kufi instead played to the procession mourning his death. His wedding was today," said Ali Abdul Haadi, 48, as he walked with the coffin down a bombed-out street in central Baghdad.
Iraq car bombs An Iraqi walks past the wreckage of a car at the site where insurgents detonated a car bomb and fired mortar rounds into a busy commercial district in the center of Baghdad on July 27, killing at least 25 civilians, a defense official said.
Kufi was one of at least 25 people killed in a flurry of rockets and car bombs that exploded within minutes Thursday morning in the relatively upscale Baghdad neighborhood of Karrada, shattering a few days of relative calm with a coordinated attack on a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood. The violence, which injured at least 65 people, collapsed three-story buildings and trapped residents under piles of rubble, according to witnesses and hospital officials. It was one of the deadliest assaults in what had been a relatively peaceful area of the city. Flames burst from Karrada's storefronts, windows shattered throughout the commercial streets, and police and firefighters cordoned off the area and searched for survivors. Residents said that as many as seven rockets and five car bombs struck the neighborhood. News services, citing Iraqi police officials, reported that mortars, rockets and one car bomb hit the neighborhood. "I was in my car, with the windows up, the air conditioner and the radio on, and I heard an explosion," said resident Joni Salim, 22, a cut over his right eye and blood dripping onto his striped shirt. "I felt the ground shaking, then the sky started raining bricks and metal particles and stones." He said he bent over and put his head between his knees. Ibn al-Nafees Hospital in Baghdad took in 20 corpses and 65 wounded people, said hospital administrator Khadhum Attiyah. The Associated Press reported that 31 people were killed and 153 were wounded. "This is not a life," cried Ghassan Nadeem, 35, a professor at Baghdad University. He sat outside the hospital morgue, crying and beating his car in despair over the death of his wife -- the woman who was walking to the dentist and the mother of his two young children. Hajia Madiah Hussein was also at the hospital morgue, searching for her brother, known as Abu Rana. When she recognized him lying supine on the floor of the refrigerated room, she fell on his body. When a morgue employee tried to pull her out of the room, she resisted, yelling toward her dead brother: "Who will bear the burden?"
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