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NewsMine war-on-terror iraq insurgency 2005 05-jan-mar Viewing Item | Child with downs syndrome used in suicide attack Original Source Link: (May no longer be active) http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/16278831http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/16278831
Disabled child in suicide attack 31 January 2005 Terrorists used a disabled child as a suicide bomber on election day, Iraqi interior minister Falah al-Naqib said today.
In all, 44 people were killed in a total of 38 bomb attacks on polling stations. Police at the scene of one the Baghdad blasts said the bomber appeared to have Down's syndrome.
Mr Al-Naqib praised an Iraqi citizen who was killed while preventing one suicide bomber from reaching a crowd of people outside a polling station.
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