IRAQ: Car bomb in Southern Baghdad kills four, one day after Baghdad's deadliest single bombing which killed 135 people in mainly Shi'ite area

Record ID: 356953

  • Title: IRAQ: Car bomb in Southern Baghdad kills four, one day after Baghdad's deadliest single bombing which killed 135 people in mainly Shi'ite area
  • Date: 4th February 2007
  • Summary: (W3) NAJAF, IRAQ (FEBRUARY 04, 2007) (REUTERS) COFFINS BEING UNLOADED OFF BUSES MOURNERS CARRYING COFFINS TO THE SHRINE OF IMAM ALI MORE OF OF MOURNERS CARRYING COFFINS TO SHRINE OF IMAM ALI/ CHANTING "THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH" GUARDS SEARCHING COFFINS WOMAN SITTING ON THE GROUND MOURNING MOURNERS PRAYING FOR THE DEAD MOURNERS CARRYING COFFINS FOR BURIAL WOMEN FOLLOWING
  • Embargoed: 19th February 2007 12:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA253DHQVR4G7HKDFO6O65LFQL8
  • Story Text: A parked car bomb exploded next to civilians in southern Baghdad on Sunday (February 4), killing four civilians and wounding nine others, police source said.
    The attack took place in al-Doura neighbourhood of southern Baghdad.
    This happened a day after Saturday's (February 3) attack which was the deadliest single bombing since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, killing 135 people. It shocked even Iraqis accustomed to the relentless violence that threatens to plunge the country into full-scale sectarian civil war.
    Residents of al-Sadriya, the Shi'ite area in Baghdad where a deadliest blast took place, started moving bodies of relatives for burial in the holy city of Najaf.
    On Saturday, a suicide bomber killed 135 people by driving a truck laden with one tonne of explosives into a market in a mainly Shi'ite area of Baghdad.
    The blast, which Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blamed on Saddam Hussein supporters and other Sunni militants, shattered fruit and vegetable stalls, caved in shopfronts and left the smashed bodies of shoppers strewn in the street.
    It came as U.S. and Iraqi troops prepared for a planned offensive seen as a last-ditch effort to stem worsening sectarian bloodshed that kills hundreds in Baghdad every week.
    Police said 305 people were wounded. The casualties swamped the capital's hospitals.
    Around 1,000 people have been killed across Iraq in the past week in suicide bombings, shootings and fighting between security forces and militants, according to figures compiled by Reuters from official sources.
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