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MOSUL, Iraq: Forty-five Iraqi men were shot dead
execution-style in the northern town of Tal Afar shortly after two
devastating bombings that killed 75 people there, a medic said on
Wednesday.
“We received 45 bodies of
handcuffed and blindfolded men from al-Wahada neighborhood
overnight. They were killed yesterday just after the bomb,” a
doctor at Tal Afar hospital told Agence France-Presse on condition
of anonymity.
The Iraqi army has slapped a
strict curfew on the town, deployed armored vehicles in downtown Tal
Afar and banned even police from moving, an army officer said, also
on condition of anonymity.
The bodies were found in the
Sunni area of Wahada after a massive suicide truck bombing ripped
through a Shiite district of the town on Tuesday, one of two
bombings that left a total of 75 people dead.
A joint Iraqi-US coordination
center for security in Tikrit, in a province neighboring the
province of Nineveh which is home to Tal Afar, said it had reports
of reprisals in Tal Afar following Tuesday’s bombings.
--AFP
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