MAJOR BOMBING ATTACKS IN IRAQ

Death toll from Iraq bombings likely to be worst of war
By Leila Fadel and Yasseen Taha McClatchy Newspapers

Posted on Wed, August 15, 2007

BAGHDAD — Officials said Wednesday that as many as 500 people probably died in a series of coordinated truck bombings that devastated two northern Iraqi villages Tuesday and set a record for mass carnage in war-torn Iraq.

The confirmed death toll was at least 250 and climbing, officials said. Five hundred more were wounded, many critically. More than 100 one-story homes and shops were destroyed by the blasts.