Breaking: Dozens are dead in massive bridge stampede near Baghdad

[brettdale]

No Link, just a headline. From faux.

Dozens are dead in massive bridge stampede near Baghdad

[maddezmom]

1. The Guardian has a flash of 500

LATEST: Up to 500 reported dead in a bridge stampede at a Shia shrine in Baghdad. More details soon ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/

[aquart]

4. Now it's 300. But no details.

[fujiyama]

2. This week just couldn't possibly worse get any could it?

nt

[aquart]

6. That is so not a good question.

Never tempt God to top a personal best.

[donheld]

3. CNN has number at 166

The world is very ugly lately.

[maddezmom]

5. AFP:500 dead in Iraq bridge stampede-Health Ministry

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050831/wl_nm/iraq_stampede_deaths_dc

[incapsulated]

8. From above link...

"Up to 500 people died when a crowd of Iraqi Shi'ites stampeded off a bridge over the River Tigris in Baghdad on Wednesday, Iraq's deputy Health Minister Jalil Al-Shumari told Reuters.

The crowd, on its way to the Kadhimiya mosque for an important religious ceremony, panicked as rumors spread that a suicide bomber was preparing to blow himself up.

Earlier at least seven people died in three separate mortar attacks on the crowd."

Jesus, what a week. :cry:

[aquart]

9. They died of terror.

"The crowd, on its way to the Kadhimiya mosque for an important religious ceremony, panicked as rumors spread that a suicide bomber was preparing to blow himself up."

[brettdale]

7. In a seperate attack

Also Wednesday, a mortar attack during an annual Shiite religious commemoration in northern Baghdad killed seven people and wounded 36 others, police said.