Dozens of Children Die in Two Iraq Bombings

NPR | By Peter Kenyon

Published September 30, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

A pair of car bombings in Iraq kills more than 45 people and wounds some 200. Among the dead were 35 children, killed during a ceremony for the inauguration of a new sewage facility. U.S. troops were handing out candy at the opening. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

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