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  Updated: September 6, 2006

UN slams 'brutal slay' of Asian pilgrims

By: Ismail Zabeeh

BAGHDAD, Iraq: United Nations senior envoy to Iraq strongly condemned the "deliberate murder" of over a dozen foreign pilgrims while on their way to the Holy City of Karbala.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Representative in Iraq Ashraf Qazi said in a statement that the murder of 14 people, including five women, while on their religious pilgrimage is "a heinous crime that violates the fundamental precepts of Islam and humanity."

Qazi also extended his condolences to the families of the victims and called on the Iraqi authorities to "vigorously pursue the perpetrators of this crime and bring them to justice." 


 
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