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BAGHDAD (AFP) - Around 20 bodies and burnt-out cars littered the streets of the southwestern Baghdad neighbourhood of Al-Dora, an AFP photographer reported
Bodies, including those of children, were still strewn over the road between Al-Dora and the international airport, which is under the control of US forces.
The putrid, fly-covered corpses were being buried in a mass grave along the side of the road by volunteers whose noses were covered with scarves agaisnt the stench, according to the photographer.
Some of the corpses were in or under the charred vehicles. Dead children lay on the side of the road, covered in sheets.
One family, two of whose members were completely incinerated, died in the back of a pick-up truck.
"If the price of freedom is this, we don't want it," said one Iraqi helping at the scene.
A gutted white Mercedes car sat at the roadside, a white flag still fluttering from its antenna.
A US officer at the scene said Saddam's Fedayeen paramilitary militia attacked an American convoy which retaliated, causing the deaths on Monday.
Witnesses, however, said that US soldiers opened fire on cars carrying civilians they thought posed a threat on Wednesday morning. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030410/wl_mideast_afp/i raq_war_baghdad_bodies_030410145215
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