Ten Iraqis suffocate in police lorry
Michael Howard in Irbil
Wednesday July 13, 2005
Iraq's leading Sunni Muslim groups reacted angrily yesterday to reports that 10 Sunni Arab men suffocated to death in the back of a police lorry in Baghdad's sweltering summer heat.
The men are alleged to have died after being arrested by Iraqi anti-terrorist special forces on Sunday as they visited relatives at a hospital in the mainly Shia neighbourhood of Shula in north-western Baghdad.
A spokesman for the conservative Association of Muslim Clerics said yesterday that 11 men had been rounded up after an incident in which US troops fired at a group of construction workers.
The men, aged between 20 and 30, were taken to a detention centre where they were tortured, he alleged.
They were then herded into a police truck for up to 14 hours, where they lost consciousness and and all but one died. The temperature outside was above 40C (104F). The man who survived used his mobile phone to alert family members.
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Wednesday July 13, 2005
Iraq's leading Sunni Muslim groups reacted angrily yesterday to reports that 10 Sunni Arab men suffocated to death in the back of a police lorry in Baghdad's sweltering summer heat.
The men are alleged to have died after being arrested by Iraqi anti-terrorist special forces on Sunday as they visited relatives at a hospital in the mainly Shia neighbourhood of Shula in north-western Baghdad.
A spokesman for the conservative Association of Muslim Clerics said yesterday that 11 men had been rounded up after an incident in which US troops fired at a group of construction workers.
The men, aged between 20 and 30, were taken to a detention centre where they were tortured, he alleged.
They were then herded into a police truck for up to 14 hours, where they lost consciousness and and all but one died. The temperature outside was above 40C (104F). The man who survived used his mobile phone to alert family members.
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