Violence forces 100,000 families to flee homes
Sunday, April 30, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Sectarian violence has forced about 100,000 families across Iraq to flee their homes, a top Iraqi official said. At least 17 people, including an American soldier, were killed Saturday in fighting. Adil Abdul-Mahdi, one of the country's two vice presidents, estimated on Friday that 100,000 Iraqi families -- 90 percent of them his fellow Shiites -- had fled their homes to escape attacks by rival religious sects. This estimate was higher than any offered so far by Iraqi officials.
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