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Mortar attacks on an exile camp housing Iranian dissidents near Baghdad killed a number of people early on Saturday, an Iraqi security official and a United Nations spokeswoman said.
The mortars \u201cled to a number of deaths and injuries among the residents,\u201d said Eliana Nabaa, spokeswoman for the U.N. mission in Iraq. \u201cAlso a number of Iraqi policemen were injured… We cannot confirm exactly how many.\u201d <\/p>\n
An interior ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, put the toll at five dead and 40 wounded.<\/p>\n
The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) said in a statement that six people were killed in 35 rockets and mortars.<\/p>\n
Nabaa said U.N. special envoy Martin Kobler had asked Iraqi authorities to \u201cpromptly conduct an investigation into this,\u201d and added, \u201cwe have our monitors on the ground to follow-up.\u201d <\/p>\n
She said Iraqi officials had said that \u201call those who were injured were hospitalised immediately.\u201d <\/p>\n
The mortar rounds struck at a transit camp known as Camp Liberty where some 3,000 residents who members of the MEK were moved on Iraq’s insistence, from their historic paramilitary camp of the 1980s — Camp Ashraf.<\/p>\n
On Friday, at least 33 people were killed after a spate of car bombs in Shiite areas of Iraq, including two blasts minutes apart at a popular bird market.<\/p>\n
The bloodshed came as tens of thousands of people in mostly Sunni parts of the country renewed rallies calling for Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to quit.<\/p>\n
The latest attacks, which also wounded more than 100, mainly targeted marketplaces that are often crowded on Fridays, the weekly holiday in Iraq, and took the death toll from a week of violence to more than 100.<\/p>\n
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