Iraq extends Baghdad curfew into Saturday

BAGHDAD, Nov 24 (Reuters) Iraqi authorities have extended a curfew imposed on Baghdad after a massive bomb attack so that vehicles will continue to be banned in city tomorrow, a Defence Ministry spokesman said today.

The curfew was declared after more than 200 people were killed in a coordinate series of bombings in the Shi'ite Sadr City stronghold yesterday. Today, gunmen attacked a Sunni enclave in the city, burning mosques, in an apparent reprisal.

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