Children massacred in Iraq bombs

• Dozens of children have been killed in a sequence of bomb blasts in Baghdad.

Officials said at least 34 children were among 41 or more people killed when bombs were detonated near a water treatment plant as US troops passed by. At least 130 others were injured, many among crowds gathered for the opening ceremony at the plant who had gone up to collect sweets from the soldiers. It was the most number of children to die in one incident since the war, on a day that saw fatal attacks across Iraq. Children who survived the attack described how they had been rushing towards the US convoy to collect sweets from the troops. "The Americans called us, they told us come here, come here, asking us if we wanted sweets," 12-year-old Abdel Rahman Dawoud told the Associated Press news agency from his hospital bed where he lay naked, with shrapnel embedded all over his body. The day of violence, including insurgent attacks and U.S. airstrikes in Fallujah, left a total of 46 people dead and 208 wounded. [more ] and [more ]