IRAQ: Bombs exploded outside five Christian churches across Baghdad, an apparently coordinated strike that kills four people and wounded more than 30, Iraqi police said

Record ID: 352438

  • Title: IRAQ: Bombs exploded outside five Christian churches across Baghdad, an apparently coordinated strike that kills four people and wounded more than 30, Iraqi police said
  • Date: 14th July 2009
  • Summary: PALESTINE STREET, BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JULY 13, 2009) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF DESTROYED CAR OUTSIDE CHURCH CHURCH CROSS ON CHURCH ROOF DESTROYED CAR OUTSIDE CHURCH GATES VARIOUS OF DESTROYED CAR BLOWN ONTO SIDE VARIOUS OF ANOTHER DESTROYED CAR IRAQI POLICEMAN NEXT TO DESTROYED CAR AL-KINDI DISTRICT, BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JULY 13, 2009) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF AL-KINDI HOSPITAL RE
  • Embargoed: 29th July 2009 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA1X9IZ6FT4JZ1PLBNEKIL14G9D
  • Story Text: Bombs exploded outside five Christian churches across Baghdad on Sunday (July 12), an apparently coordinated strike that killed four people and wounded more than 30, Iraqi police said.
    In the worst attack, a car bomb exploded near a church on eastern Baghdad's Palestine Street, killing four people and wounding 21 on Sunday evening. A police source said at least eight Christians were amongst the wounded.
    Minutes later a bomb outside a church in southern Baghdad's Dora district wounded three and damaged the building.
    Before those, three bombs hidden in cardboard boxes went off near the gates of the churches in Ghadir and Karrada districts of central and eastern Baghdad. One wounded seven people, the others hurt no one.
    The bloodshed that followed the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 has largely faded, but violence continues, especially in ethnically and religiously mixed areas.
    Iraq's Christians, believed to number around 750,000, are a small minority in a mainly Muslim country of around 28 million.
    Christians have been sporadically targeted for attacks, particularly in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul, leading many of them to flee abroad.
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