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28/03/2007 - 10:17:12

At least 45 people were killed when off-duty Shiite policemen went on a revenge spree against Sunnis in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar today.

Enraged by massive truck bombings which killed 63 people yesterday, the policemen began roaming the Sunni neighbourhoods on foot early in the morning, shooting at Sunni residents and homes.

A senior hospital official in Tal Afar said at least 45 men aged 15 to 60 were killed with a shot to the back of the head and four others were wounded.

Police said dozens of Sunnis were killed or wounded, but they had no precise figures. The shooting continued for more than two hours, officials said.

Army troops later moved into the Sunni areas to stop the violence and a curfew was imposed on the entire town, according to Wathiq al-Hamdani, the provincial police chief and his head of operations, Brig. Abdul-Karim al-Jibouri.

Tal Afar, 260 miles north-west of Baghdad, is in the province of Ninevah of which Mosul is the capital.

“The situation is under control now,” said al-Hamdani. “The local Tal Afar police have been confined to their bases and policemen from Mosul are moving there to replace them.”

Al-Jibouri said he was heading to Tal Afar to take charge of the situation.
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28/03/2007 - 10:17:12

At least 45 people were killed when off-duty Shiite policemen went on a revenge spree against Sunnis in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar today.

Enraged by massive truck bombings which killed 63 people yesterday, the policemen began roaming the Sunni neighbourhoods on foot early in the morning, shooting at Sunni residents and homes.

A senior hospital official in Tal Afar said at least 45 men aged 15 to 60 were killed with a shot to the back of the head and four others were wounded.

Police said dozens of Sunnis were killed or wounded, but they had no precise figures. The shooting continued for more than two hours, officials said.

Army troops later moved into the Sunni areas to stop the violence and a curfew was imposed on the entire town, according to Wathiq al-Hamdani, the provincial police chief and his head of operations, Brig. Abdul-Karim al-Jibouri.

Tal Afar, 260 miles north-west of Baghdad, is in the province of Ninevah of which Mosul is the capital.

“The situation is under control now,” said al-Hamdani. “The local Tal Afar police have been confined to their bases and policemen from Mosul are moving there to replace them.”

Al-Jibouri said he was heading to Tal Afar to take charge of the situation.

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