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6 Iranians dead at camp

The Iraqi government said yesterday that six people were killed in violence between Iranian exiles and Iraqi security forces at a camp north of Baghdad.

The camp was first set up in 1986 to house Iranian fighters who were helping Saddam Hussein in the Iraq-Iran war. Baghdad now wants to send them home, but the exiles fear that if they are deported back to Iran they may be prosecuted by the government for the group's collaboration with Saddam.