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Grieving relatives, piles of shoes remain on bridge, funerals

(1 Sep 2005) SHOTLIST Azamiyah neighbourhood, Baghdad 1. Various of distraught people walking on the bridge where disaster took place 2. Various of people looking at river 3. Men searching river and one holding sandals 4. People sitting on the bank of river 5. Various of small boats searching the river 6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sabih Mudisher, Father of missing person: ''''My son has been missing for two days. I have tried all hospitals, emergency departments, you name it, but to no avail. Is it right what this government is doing? 7. Various of piles of sandals and shoes 8. People walking on bridge 9. Wide shot the bridge Sadr city, Baghdad 12. Various children putting their heads on coffin and crying 13. Close up children crying 14. Various funeral procession STORYLINE: As thousands of people attended funerals of their loved ones on Thursday, many continued to search for Shiite pilgrims killed in a stampede on a Baghdad bridge during a religious procession, as criticism mounted against the Shiite-led government for failing to prevent the tragedy. Iraq''s Ministry of Interior announced on Thursday that a total of 953 people had died and 815 were injured in the chaos the day before on a bridge in north Baghdad. But Health Ministry spokesman Qassim Yahya said 843 died and 439 were injured. It was not possible to explain the difference. In Baghdad''s eastern Sadr City district, crowds gathered at the Imam Ali Hospital. Dozens of bodies were identified and taken away for burial by their relatives, medical workers said. But for many the search for the missing continued. Some went to the bridge on east bank of the Tigris River in the Azamiyah district of Baghdad to searched the river. Sabih Mudisher, said his son had been missing for two days. He said he had trawled hospitals and emergency departments looking for his relative but had not found anything. He questioned the government''s role in not preventing the tragedy, "Is it right what this government is doing?" Poor crowd control, heavy security and the climate of fear after so many suicide attacks helped set the stage for the disaster. The tragedy occurred as Shiites were marching to the tomb of Imam Moussa ibn Jaafar al-Kadhim, one of the 12 principle Shiite saints, in a mosque in the nearby neighbourhood of Kadimiyah. The government has proclaimed a three-day period of mourning after the disaster, which appeared to have been sparked by a rumour that a suicide bomber was among the more than one million people gathering at a Shiite shrine in the capital. Some Iraqi political organisations accused Saddam Hussein loyalists and Sunni religious extremists for spreading the rumour that but provided no proof. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...