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Two Killed by Grenade Blast in Iraqi Cinema
Wed September 24, 2003 10:21 AM ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A hand grenade blast ripped through a cinema in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, killing two people and wounding 20, police said.
Police said a witness had told them the movie theater was showing a pornographic film when the grenade exploded. Islamic militants have attacked some cinemas in postwar Iraq for showing movies they regard as immoral.

"A grenade exploded inside the cinema. Twenty people were injured, two were killed," said Mohammed Sadiq, an officer at the police station nearest the cinema told Reuters by telephone.

Shopkeepers in the same street as the cinema said they saw about 20 people carried out of the building, some with very serious wounds. The blast smashed windows in the cinema but appeared to have caused little structural damage.

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Police said a witness had told them the movie theater was showing a pornographic film

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