In Iraq, bomb turns engagement party into funeral

[deadparrot]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Sabreen Saad never had time to grieve after a car bomb killed her fiance an hour before their engagement party. She died two days later from wounds sustained in the same blast.

Shi'ite laborer Hussein al-Ameri, 25, had just picked up his 16-year-old fiancee and her sister at the hairdresser and were about to head for the cake shop.

A few seconds later the bomb exploded, sending shrapnel flying in all directions as mortar bombs landed nearby, killing at least 27 people and wounding 101 people in one of the capital's less dangerous districts two weeks ago.

Like so many other blasts, the bomb on Karrada street in central Baghdad claimed civilian lives indiscriminately.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/iraq_bomb_fiancee_dc

[pooja]

1. wow.. in America that would be statutory rape or a palygomist.

16yrs old getting married to 25 yr. old men... gasp, gasp, gasp...

it is truely sad that the happiest moments in life cannot even be enjoyed... lets hope they are hand in hand in peace