Terrorist Mortar Kills 2 in Baghdad: "
From Reuters via the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) :
Insurgents fired two mortar rounds in central Baghdad today, killing"
two civilians and wounding one, witnesses said.A telephone worker said he had taken all three casualties to hospital in his car after one mortar bomb hit the Karrada commercial district.
A donkey was also killed.
Witnesses said the other mortar round appeared to land in the fortified Green Zone, which houses Iraqi government offices and the US and British embassies.
There were no reports of casualties or damage in that blast.
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