BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Dozens of suspected Sunni insurgents attacked a small town near Baghdad at dusk on Thursday and killed at least 25 people and possibly many more, police and a local politician said on Friday.
Police recovered 21 bodies, mostly of Shi'ite Muslim migrant workers, from a brick factory at Nahrawan, municipal council leader Alaa Abdul Sahab al-Lamy told Reuters. A further four were brought from the local power station, he added.
It was one of the bloodiest incidents after 10 days of sectarian violence that have pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war following the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine on February 22. Last week, 47 people were killed near Nahrawan after attending what police said was a demonstration calling for Muslim unity.
Police and Interior Ministry sources in Baghdad said they could not confirm a total death toll but said nine guards at the power station were killed along with "many" factory workers.
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