BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct 12, SPA -- At least 21 people were killed Thursday in attacks in Iraq, including 11 in an assault on a new Sunni-Arab television station in Baghdad, while authorities found the mutilated bodies of more likelyvictims of the sectarian death squads that roam thecapital. The raid on the southeastern Baghdad offices of Iraq'sShaabiya satellite station came at around 7 a.m. (0400GMT), police Maj. Mahir Hamad said. An unknown number of gunmen pulled up at the station in seven cars, stormed quickly into the offices and opened fire, then fled, station executive director Hassan Kamil told Associated Press Television News. Kamil said 11 people had been killed, includingtechnicians, two guards and the head of the station's board of directors. «A group of armed men in seven cars stormed into thebuilding and killed a group of our colleagues, includingthe head of the board of directors Abdel-RaheemNasrallah,» he said. The station moved into the building in July and has not yet gone on the air, Kamil said.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/395712
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