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Death toll of Baghdad bridge stampede nears 1,000

Updated: 2005-09-01 07:51

An Iraqi man swims to the bank after falling into the Tigris river from Baghdad's Al A'ema bridge during a stampede August 31, 2005. More than 600 Iraqi Shi'ites died in a stampede over a Tigris River bridge in Baghdad on Wednesday, panicked by rumors a suicide bomber was about to blow himself up, an Interior Ministry source told Reuters.

An Iraqi man swims to the bank after falling into the Tigris river from Baghdad's Al A'ema bridge during a stampede August 31, 2005. [Reuters]

Iraqi Defence Minister Saadoun Al-Dulaimi speaks with journalists at a news conference in Baghdad August 31, 2005. Iraq's defence minister said the stampede on a Baghdad bridge on Wednesday which killed hundreds of people was not related to sectarian tensions gripping the country. [Reuters]


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