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Baghdad soccer game ends in tragedy

Iraqis mourn below the coffin for a boy killed in Wednesday's bomb attacks on a soccer field in Baghdad. The two homemade bombs went off Wednesday afternoon on the soccer field in the mostly Shiite district of Amil in west Baghdad, killing 11 players and spectators ranging in age from 15 to 25, police 1st Lt. Maitham Abdul Razzaq said.

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