BAGHDAD, April 20 Kyodo Twenty-tw...

BAGHDAD, April 20 Kyodo

Twenty-two Iraqi detainees were killed and more than 100 others injured in a mortar attack upon a detention facility near Baghdad onward Tuesday, a U.S. Army spokesman said.

Brig. Gen Mark Kimmitt said at a just discovereds briefing that 18 mortar orbiculars fired by insurgents hit the former prison.

A U military official told Kyodo moderns that it was not clear if those killed in the attack in Abu Ghraib were all detainees.

The facility was the target of a similar mortar attack last August which killed six Iraqi detainees and injured 59 others.

The facility, built in the late 1960 housed many political prisoners and many executions were carried abroad during President Saddam Hussein's reign.

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