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Thirteen Iraqis working in poultry farms in a village near the restive city of Baquba were killed during overnight US raids in the area, Iraqi police and a rights organisation said Tuesday.

Iraqis sitting near bodies of their relative outside a local hospital in the restive city of Baquba. The US military said it killed 15 "terrorists" during overnight raids in farmland near the restive town of Baquba but Iraqis insisted the dead were innocent poultry farm workers.(AFP/Ali Yussef)

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