Dr Mustafa had just received seven bodies all from a single family hit by a mortar bomb

Dr Mustafa had just received seven bodies, all from a single family, hit by a mortar bomb.He pointed out that, at this time of year, casualties were particularly severe because those in poorer neighbourhoods sleep on the roofs of their houses because it is cooler. As they lie sleeping, they are often killed or wounded by shrapnel or stray bullets.People in Baghdad have learned caution. Often there are long traffic jams because cars do not want to go near a slowly moving American convoy, a possible target of a massive bomb buried beside the road or a rocket-propelled grenade. The Americans also have a much-feared practice of spraying fire in all directions when they come under attack.Suicide bombers show total disregard for civilian casualties and assassins are equally careless of who they kill.

On Tuesday, an attempt to kill the Governor of Baghdad Ali al-Haidri almost succeeded but a bomb hit the wrong car A man and a women were killed by the blast. Iraq is not just a dangerous place to live because of political violence. Unicef estimated in the 1990s that 500,000 children had died because of the collapse of health standards. Infant mortality rose from 40 per 1,000 in 1990, before the 1991 Gulf War, to 108, 13 years later according to the World Health Organisation.Public health has not improved since the invasion last year A main reason is unclean water. Dr Bashar, a senior house surgeon at al-Kindi, said: “Look around you Baghdad is the dirtiest city in the world.”. India’s Hindu right wing seized on new census findings that show Muslims are the fastest-growing community in the country as “evidence” in its campaign against religious minorities yesterday. But it appears the analysts forgot that 2001’s census included Jammu and Kashmir, which has a Muslim majority, while 1991’s did not.A more accurate figure for Muslim growth would be around 29 per cent, which still makes Muslims the fastest-growing community.The BJP and other parties on the right have used the findings to promote the idea of Hindutva, an assertive Hindu identity for India..

A powerful car bomb exploded near the Australian embassy in Jakarta today, killing eight people and leaving nearly 160 wounded, witnesses and police said. No one inside the heavily fortified embassy was hurt in the blast, said Lyndall Sachs, a spokeswoman for the Australian foreign ministry in Canberra. A senior police officer who asked not to be identified said three policemen guarding the building were among the eight people who died. Many of the wounded were carried to the nearby Metropolitan Medical Centre, which itself had dozens of windows blown out by the explosion.Inside, dozens of doctors struggled to treat the influx of casualties, most of whom were suffering from cuts from shards of flying glass.Police chief Gen.