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Suicide Bomber Scores Over A Century At Iraqi Occupation's Recruiting OfficeBy Sanjay Sharma, Section Suicide Bombers 
An Iraqi pushing an injured man on a market trolley February 28, 2005 following a suicide car bomb attack south of Baghdad. The attack near a crowded marketplace south of Baghdad on Monday killed 115 people and wounded 148. (Reuters/TV). HILLA, Iraq - A suicide car bomber drove into a crowd of people south of Baghdad and detonated his explosives on Monday, killing 105 people and wounding 130 in one of the deadliest attacks since the fall of Saddam Hussein, police and witnesses said. The attack in Hilla, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, occurred where dozens of people had gathered outside a government office seeking work, witnesses said. Dozens of bodies could be seen laying on the ground after the blast, and half a dozen ambulances ferried casualties to a nearby hospital, witnesses said. The huge blast damaged nearby shops and parked cars, and sent panicked people fleeing. "We finished now transporting the bodies from the site. There were 105 people dead and 130 wounded," doctor Mahmoud Abdul Ridah, an official from the town's health directorate, told Reuters. "We've called on people to donate blood and have opened a center for that," he said. "We've called on doctors from Kerbala, Diwaniyah and Najaf to come and help and they have started to arrive."
From msnbc.com - February 29, 2005
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