A thousand pilgrims crushed and drowned in 'bomb' panic
5th Sep 2005, 15:36 GMT
THE death toll in the worst single loss of life since the start of the Iraq war was last night heading towards 1,000 after a crowd of about one million Shiite pilgrims making their way across a bridge in Baghdad panicked at reports of a suicide bomber...
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