DEATH AND MAYHEM GOES ON IN IRAQ: 14 KILLED AND 75 WOUNDED IN PAST 24 HOURS

Baghdad, Apr 25, (VOI) – 14 people were killed, 75 others were wounded, while security forces arrested five persons in violent acts that took place throughout Iraq during the last 24 hours, security source said on Friday.

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In Baghdad, a medical source from Sadr city, eastern Baghdad, said that "the Imam Ali hospital in Sadr City received during the past few hours nine corpses and 39 wounded people while the al-Shahid al-Sadr hospital received two killed and 35 others wounded."

"The number of deaths is most likely to rise due to the serious condition of some of the wounded," he said, adding the two main hospitals in Sadr City and other nearby hospitals are acting in a limited pace due to the continued bombardment.Sadr City, a stronghold of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militias, has been witnessing armed clashes since Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced last month the commencement of a security operation codenamed Saulat al-Forsan (Knights' Assault) in the port city of Basra, Iraq's second largest province and an oil-hub, 590 km south of Baghdad, which he said targeted "outlaws".