| August 2006 in Iraq |
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August 1st -52 Iraqis were killed in a series of bombings in Iraq. In the first a bus carrying 24 Iraq soldiers was destroyed a by roadside bomb. The bomb went off in the city of Beiji north of Baghdad. In the Karradah area of Baghdad 14 people were killed and another 37 were injured in a bombing during rush hour near a bank. |
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August 8th- Multiple bomb attacks in Baghdad killed 19 people. The bombs included two in the central market and three more along the road during morning rush hour. |
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August 9th- A suicide bomber drove a truck into a police station North og Baghdad killing nine security personnel. 18 civilians were wounded. 18 additional people were killed elsewhere in Iraq. |
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August 10th- A suicide bomber blew himself up in a market outside the Iman Ali Shrine in the city of Majaf. 30 people were killed in the bomb blasŽ and another 50 were wounded |
| August 13th Five bombings in Baghdad caused the death of 57 people . The bombings took place in the Shiite Zafaraniya district in southeastern Baghdad. |
| August 20th- Despite heavy security over 20 Shite were killed during an annual pilrgrimage march in in Baghdad. Snipers firing from rooftops killed the prilgram and wounded another 300. |
| August 28th - Eight Americans soldiers were killed in Iraq, seven of them were killed when an IED device went off near an American vehicle in Western Baghdad. |
| August 31st- A series of explosions went off in Shite neighborhoods flattening apartment, and causing the deaths of over 62 people and the wounding of 232. |
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