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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48987)	8/31/2005 12:19:57 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Death toll nearing 1000-Interior Minister Bayan Jabor and two top Shi'ite officials blamed insurgents for the stampede, saying a terrorist spread a rumour there was a suicide bomber in the crowd.The death toll in a stampede on a Baghdad bridge is expected to reach 1,000, a general manager at Iraq's Health Ministry said on Wednesday. "An hour ago the death toll was 695 killed, but we expect it to hit 1,000," Dr Jaseb Latif Ali told Reuters. Earlier, an Interior Ministry official told Reuters most victims were women and children who "died by drowning or being trampled" Advertisement after panic swept a throng of thousands as they headed to a religious ceremony, the official said.