IRAQ: At least 12 dead after three seperate car bombs in Iraq

Record ID: 356617

  • Title: IRAQ: At least 12 dead after three seperate car bombs in Iraq
  • Date: 18th June 2007
  • Summary: SIGN IN ARABIC READING "MINISTRY OF HEALTH, FALLUJA GENERAL HOSPITAL " EXTERIOR OF " EMERGENCY WARD" WOUNDED MAN LYING ON HOSPITAL BED
  • Embargoed: 3rd July 2007 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: War / Fighting
  • Reuters ID: LVAC1QWVPA06SLY3AW4XUO10KI07
  • Story Text: At least 12 people are killed and 40 wounded in three separate car bomb attacks in Iraq. At least 12 people are killed and 40 wounded in three car bomb attacks in Iraq on Monday (June 18).
    Hospital sources say three people were killed and 15 others were wounded when a car bomb blew up in a popular market in Iraq's western city of Falluja.
    The blast turned market stalls into mangled wreckage and demolished a number of shops and buildings in the market.
    Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, is in restive Anbar province, a stronghold of Sunni Arab insurgency.
    Some Sunni Arab tribes in Anbar have been engaged in a war over control in Anbar against al Qaeda militants. The tribes have joined forces with the police against the militants who are targeting tribes who cooperate with Anbar's authorities..
    The U.S. military has more than 6,000 troops in Anbar, where local commanders have said that al Qaeda accounts for about 75 percent of militants in and around Falluja.
    In the Iraqi capital Baghdad, police confirmed at least a further nine people were killed and 25 wounded when two car bombs exploded in quick succession as motorists queued for petrol in the southern district of Saidiyah.
    The Iraqi government are currently launching a security crackdown in Baghdad, involving 28,000 extra U.S. soldiers.
    The security crackdown is meant to give Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government time to meet political targets aimed at promoting reconciliation between majority Shi'ites and Sunni Arabs, who were dominant under Saddam Hussein but who now form the backbone of Iraq's bloody insurgency.
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