Car bomb in eastern Baghdad kills 12, wounds dozens - police and medics

Record ID: 163455

  • Title: Car bomb in eastern Baghdad kills 12, wounds dozens - police and medics
  • Date: 8th January 2017
  • Summary: BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JANUARY 8, 2017) (REUTERS) WRECKAGE OF MARKET STALLS AT CAMILLA DISTRICT - SCENE OF BLAST / ONLOOKERS PEOPLE STANDING AMIDST HEAP OF TWISTED IRON WRECKAGE WRECKAGE OF CAR BOMB AND PEOPLE STANDING NEAR WRECKAGE OF MARKET STALLS/ BURNT OUT VEGETABLES AND SCATTERED BOXES OF VEGETABLES / CROWD OF PEOPLE NEARBY DAMAGED CAR AT SCENE / PAN TO REMAINS OF CAR BOMB AND PEOPLE NEAR WRECKAGE OF MARKET STALLS AND VEGETABLES / ONLOOKERS MORE OF SCATTERED DEBRIS AND ORANGES ON GROUND, FORKLIFT AT SCENE (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) UNIDENTIFIED EYEWITNESS AND RESIDENT SAYING: "This wholesale vegetables market has been a frequent target of bombing, yet there is no patrol and no checkpoint (to secure it). If people go out they'll be killed and if they stay at home they will die of hunger." DAMAGED MINIBUS AND MAN STANDING NEAR FORKLIFT COLLECTING WRECKAGE CAUSED BY BLAST / PEOPLE STANDING NEAR
  • Embargoed: 23rd January 2017 08:00
  • Keywords: Iraq Baghdad bomb
  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • City: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Bombing (non-military),Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA0015Y7XWZR
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: A car bomb blast killed at least 12 people and wounded 50 others at a vegetable market in eastern Baghdad on Sunday (January 8), police and medical sources said.
    The explosion hit the mainly Shi'ite district of Jamila, the sources said.
    There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing.
    A man at the scene complained about the lack of security in the area.
    "This wholesale vegetables market has been a frequent target of bombing, yet there is no patrol and no checkpoint (to secure it). If people go out they'll be killed and if they stay at home they will die of hunger," he said.
    A series of attacks in the Iraqi capital and other cities in just over a week has killed dozens of people.
    Several have been claimed by Islamic State, which is coming under increasing pressure from a U.S.-backed offensive in Mosul, its last major stronghold in Iraq.
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