Reuters witnesses said U.S. strikes had killed two toddlers in the poor district, the main stronghold in Baghdad for the Mehdi Army, a Shi'ite militia loyal to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Iraqi police said 13 people had been killed and 69 wounded.
The bodies of the toddlers, one in a nappy, lay on blankets in the morgue of Imam Ali hospital in Sadr City where doctors tended to wounded men, some elderly, and boys.
In a house where one of the children lived, a man pointed to bloodstained mattresses and blood-splattered pillows, choking back tears as he held up a photo of one of the dead.
Hundreds of local residents, wailing and chanting "There is no God but Allah," carried wooden coffins through the streets......"
Medics try unsuccessfully to revive Ali Hussein, the victim of an overnight raid in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007. Backed by air power, U.S. forces.... (AP Photo)
Karim Raheem is comforted by his neighbor after being injured in an overnight raid in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007. (AP Photo)
Ahmed Abd Ameer holds the mattress where his young nephew, Ali, died after an overnight raid in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007. Backed by air power, U.S. forces... (AP Photo)
Ajeel Ali, second left, is comforted by friends after his brother, Ismael, 10, was killed in an overnight raid in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007. Backed by air power, U.S. forces... (AP Photo)
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