Iraq orders daytime curfews after more than 100 killed over shrine bombing
Friday, February 24, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Gunmen killed dozens of civilians Thursday and dumped their bodies in a ditch, as the government ordered a daytime curfew of Baghdad and three provinces to stem the sectarian violence that has left at least 114 dead since the bombing of a Shiite shrine.
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