.IRAQ: YEMENI TERRORIST ARRESTED SAY INTERIOR MINISTRY SOURCES
Baghdad, 14 March (AKI) - The Iraqi authorities on Tuesday arrested a suspected suicide bomber with Yemeni citizenship who was planning to blow up an elementary school in Baghdad, an interior ministry official announced. "A security guard at a school in Baghdad became suspicious of a person of strange appearance who was hanging around in the school exercise yard at the start of lessons," the chief of public security forces at the ministry, Mahdid Subayh told Adnkronos International (AKI).
"The guard caught the man unawares and apprehended him before he had the chance to detonate the explosives belt he was wearing," Subayh said. "This terrorist wanted to blow himself amongst the children during their break from lesson," he added. He said he could not name the school guard or the school - for security reasons.
Iraq's education minister Muhammad Hanun has praised the courage of the guard. "He saved the school's pupils from carnage and handed the terrorist over to the local security forces," a spokesman for the minister told AKI.
A total 100 bodies have been found in central Iraq over the past 24 hours including four men reportedly strung up from electricity pylons in the eastern Shiite district of Sadr City. The bodies of 15 bound, shot and apparently tortured men were found in an abandoned minibus in the capital, Baghdad's Khadra district.
Hours later, at least 27 bodies were found bound, blindfolded and buried in a south-eastern suburb of Baghdad. The killings reflect the continuing sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites, according to analysts.
Interior ministry spokesman Maj. Falah Mohammedawi said the Khadra victims had been shot in the head and chest and showed signs of torture. Police said one victim was carrying papers identifying him as a 22-year-old Sunni student.
Hundreds of people have been killed in reprisal attacks following a bomb attacks on one of the most important Shiite shrines in Samarra, last month. Amid the continuing sectarian violence, Sunni Shiite and Kurdish politicians have begun intensive discussions on the formation of government. The inaugural session of Iraq's parliament - elected in December - is due to take place on Thursday.
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"The guard caught the man unawares and apprehended him before he had the chance to detonate the explosives belt he was wearing," Subayh said. "This terrorist wanted to blow himself amongst the children during their break from lesson," he added. He said he could not name the school guard or the school - for security reasons.
Iraq's education minister Muhammad Hanun has praised the courage of the guard. "He saved the school's pupils from carnage and handed the terrorist over to the local security forces," a spokesman for the minister told AKI.
A total 100 bodies have been found in central Iraq over the past 24 hours including four men reportedly strung up from electricity pylons in the eastern Shiite district of Sadr City. The bodies of 15 bound, shot and apparently tortured men were found in an abandoned minibus in the capital, Baghdad's Khadra district.
Hours later, at least 27 bodies were found bound, blindfolded and buried in a south-eastern suburb of Baghdad. The killings reflect the continuing sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites, according to analysts.
Interior ministry spokesman Maj. Falah Mohammedawi said the Khadra victims had been shot in the head and chest and showed signs of torture. Police said one victim was carrying papers identifying him as a 22-year-old Sunni student.
Hundreds of people have been killed in reprisal attacks following a bomb attacks on one of the most important Shiite shrines in Samarra, last month. Amid the continuing sectarian violence, Sunni Shiite and Kurdish politicians have begun intensive discussions on the formation of government. The inaugural session of Iraq's parliament - elected in December - is due to take place on Thursday.
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