Iraq imposes indefinite curfew in Baghdad

AFP
Wednesday June 13, 2007

An indefinite curfew has been imposed in Baghdad from Wednesday 3:00 pm (1100 GMT) following the bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in the northern town of Samarra, state television reported.
Baghdad already is under a nightly curfew between 11:00 pm (1900 GMT) and 6:00 am (0200 GMT).

Details were still sketchy, but the curfew is expected to last from at least 3:00 pm until 6:00 am on Thursday.

Suspected Sunni insurgents on Wednesday blew up the minarets of a revered Shiite shrine in the Iraqi town of Samarra, 15 months after its bombing by Al-Qaeda militants ignited brutal sectarian clashes.

Since the February 22, 2006, attack on the Samarra shrine, Baghdad has been engulfed in sectarian bloodletting that has seen tens of thousands of people killed.

The indefinite curfew imposed on Wednesday is seen as an attempt to thwart any tit-for-tat violence after the latest attack.

US and Iraqi forces are currently deployed in the Iraqi capital as part of a massive crackdown to curb the daily violence.

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