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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Fire from US Helicopter burnt 300 shops of Jamila Market








A woman reacts in front of her shop gutted by a fire on Monday night in New Baghdad district May 14, 2008. More than 300 shops were destroyed during Monday night's fire in Baghdad which police said was caused by faulty electrical wiring but residents said the cause of fire was from the flares coming from a helicopter flying over.
REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ)

New Fire Strikes Baghdad's Jamila Market
Flames Follow Last Month's Blaze in Vital Wholesale Center; Casualties Unknown
Google Earth image/IraqSlogger.com.
New fires have broken out in a major wholesale and industrial center in the Iraqi capital that neighbors the besieged Sadr City district, less than a month after a major blaze that ripped through the vital Baghdad economic center. Meanwhile military aircraft struck suspected gunmen in Sadr City during...

Fires and explosions that tore through areas of the vital Jamila wholesale market in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday and Wednesday claimed more than 25 lives, security sources told IraqSlogger, adding that at least 30 Iraqis were injured.

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