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The war came to Baghdad's Shaab neighbourhood on Wednesday and it left death and chaos in its wake.
In the midst of the carnage, people were separated, women left wondering where their families were.
This densely populated area was transformed into a wasteland by what one eyewitness described as at least one massive explosion.
All this in a poor ordinary area which must have thought it would escape the worst of this war.
That illusion was soon shattered. Into the scene of confusion Iraqi emergency service workers tried to recover the dead and wounded.
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