IRAQ: Blasts kill at least 20 in Baghdad

Record ID: 356387

  • Title: IRAQ: Blasts kill at least 20 in Baghdad
  • Date: 26th December 2006
  • Summary: (BN08) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (DECEMBER 26, 2006) (REUTERS) CAR ON FIRE AND SMOKE BILLOWING FIREMEN DOUSING BURNING CAR MORE OF FIREMEN DOUSING BURNING CAR AND SMOKE ENGULFING AREA FIREMEN AND CAR ON FIRE FIREMEN DOUSING BURNING CARS SMOKE ENGULFING BLAST SITE AND FIRE ENGINE AT BACKGROUND WRECKAGE OF CAR AT SITE WRECKAGE OF CAR AND CAR ON FIRE AT BACKGROUND FIREMEN DOUSING SMOU
  • Embargoed: 10th January 2007 12:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVACHSXF7NT15XC1IXVSWXP3FOOH
  • Story Text: Three simultaneous car bombs exploded in a busy intersection in a predominantly Shi'ite district in southwestern Baghdad on Tuesday (December 26), killing at least 14 people and wounding scores, Interior and police sources said.
    Television footage showed rescue workers pulling charred bodies from mangled wreckage in Bayaa district, where the car bombs exploded.
    Smoke billowed from vehicles which were set on fire. Oranges and bananas from vendors' stalls that were shattered by the blasts lay scattered amid debris and pools of blood.
    "The first car exloded here and the second car went off there followed by a third one. We were standing there. Many people were hurt, you can see the blood (points to his shirt). Lets people see and lets the government see, " said an outraged man at blast site.
    Sunni insurgent groups including al Qaeda have launched bomb attacks against markets and other civilian targets in Shi'ite and mixed areas. Such attacks fuel reprisals assaults by Shi'ite militias against Sunni Arabs, deepening Iraq's sectarian cycle of violence.
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