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SF Gate
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Fifty-four illegal migrant workers from Myanmar suffocated in the back of an unventilated truck Thursday, while the rest of the passengers being smuggled to Thailand pounded on the container and screamed in vain for the driver's help.
More than 100 mig..
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CNN
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Seventy-two Ugandan soldiers were killed and another 40 injured, many seriously, when their huge truck crashed into a concrete barrier in the east of the country, a spokesman said Monday.
The death toll is one of the highest the Ugandan army has suffer..
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Washington Post
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At least 175 people were killed Tuesday night by four truck bombs in a massive coordinated attack against members of a small religious sect, the Yazidis, in northern Iraq, the Iraqi army said.
The nearly simultaneous explosions, in three Yazidi communi..
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BBC News
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At least 45 people have been killed and dozens wounded by a suicide truck bombing in the northern Iraqi town of Makhmur, police said.
The bomber crashed his truck into the offices of a leading Kurdish party, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, where a meet..
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Washington Post
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A day after twin truck bombings laid waste to predominantly Shiite neighborhoods in the northern Iraqi city of Tall Afar, marauding Shiite gunmen and police executed dozens of Sunnis in retaliatory attacks that many Iraqis feared might precipitate a resur..
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CNN
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Two suicide truck bombings detonated minutes apart Tuesday morning in the northern Iraqi city of Baiji, killing at least 22 people and wounding 30 -- a coordinated attack police say targeted anti-insurgent Sunni tribal leaders. Violence reverberated as we..
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CNN
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Truck bombings that killed and wounded hundreds in northern Iraq were a "trademark al Qaeda event" designed to sway U.S. public opinion against the war, a U.S. general said Wednesday. The Tuesday attacks, which targeted Kurdish villages of the Yazidi reli..
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USA Today
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Rescuers dug through the muddy wreckage of collapsed clay houses in northwest Iraq on Wednesday, uncovering at least 200 bodies from suicide truck bombings the U.S. military blamed on al-Qaeda.
The victims were members of a small Kurdish sect — the Y..
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USA Today
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A suicide bomber slammed his truck into a densely populated residential area in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar on Monday, killing at least 28 people, including 19 children, local authorities said.
The attack occurred in a crowded Shiite neighborho..
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CNN
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A suicide truck bomber detonated in a commercial section in the northern Iraq city of Kirkuk, killing at least 65 people, an Iraqi army spokesman says. Maj. Gen. Anwar Mohammed Amin said 170 people were wounded in the attacks Monday afternoon.
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BBC News
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A deadly truck bombing in a busy market in northern Iraq has killed 105 people and injured 240, police say.
The morning blast destroyed the market in the small town of Amirli, south of Kirkuk, killing many people instantly and trapping dozens among the..
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BBC News
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At least 78 people have been killed and another 218 injured in a truck bomb attack near a Shia mosque in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
The massive explosion in the busy Sinak commercial district destroyed part of the al-Khilani mosque and s..
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CNN
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A suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden truck into a police station near Tikrit on Sunday morning, killing at least seven police officers and wounding about 52 people, some of them civilians, a Tikrit police official said.
Some of the wounded are in..
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CNN
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A parked truck loaded with vegetables exploded in an outdoor market in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 25 people and leaving 60 others wounded, the Interior Ministry said.
The attack, which rocked the city's Amil neighborhood around 11 a.m. (3 a.m..
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CNN
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An attempt to crash a truck bomb into Nigeria's national election headquarters, just hours before polls were to open in a historic presidential election, failed according to Nigeria's national police chief.
The driver apparently jumped out of the fuel..
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MSNBC
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At least 16 Egyptian secondary school students were killed on their way to school on Wednesday when a truck they were riding in collided head-on with another vehicle south of the Egyptian capital, security sources said.
The sources said eight other stu..
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SF Gate
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A truck rigged with TNT and chlorine exploded in the capital of Anbar province Friday, the latest in a spate of chemically laced bombings in the restive area west of Baghdad, police said.
Authorities said the driver appeared to be targeting a police ch..
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FOX News
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A homicide bomber driving a truck loaded with TNT and toxic chlorine gas crashed into a police checkpoint in western Ramadi on Friday, killing at least 27 people and wounding dozens, police in the Anbar provincial capital said.
The bombing in Anbar pro..
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BBC News
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Nine children were among 12 people killed when a suicide bomber blew up a truck in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police say.
A further 192 people were injured in the blast, which happened when a bomber drove a truck laden with explosives into a ba..
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CNN
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Last week's suicide truck bombing in the northern city of Tal Afar is the deadliest single attack since the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003, a high-ranking Iraqi Interior Ministry official said Monday as a new death toll for the blast surfaced.
The W..
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