IRAQ: Suicide car bomb kills 30 north of Baghdad

Record ID: 357172

  • Title: IRAQ: Suicide car bomb kills 30 north of Baghdad
  • Date: 13th September 2008
  • Summary: (BN06) DUJAIL, NORTH OF BAGHDAD, IRAQ (SEPT 12, 2008) (AGENCY POOL) WOUNDED WOMAN WALKING INTO DUJAIL HOSPITAL WOUNDED CHILD BEING TREATED WOMEN WOUNDED IN HER HAND RECEIVING TREATMENT MEN CARRYING COFFIN INTO SHI'ITE MOSQUE PEOPLE CARRYING ANOTHER COFFIN INTO MOSQUE BODIES PLACED IN OPEN WOODEN COFFINS LINING UP ON FLOOR INSIDE MOSQUE
  • Embargoed: 28th September 2008 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA11EIPYTODWFFK4O7E3P9XEI2U
  • Story Text: A suicide car bomb attack leaves 30 people and 47 wounded outside a police station in Dujail, a town 50 klilometres north of Bagdhdad.
    A suicide car bomb killed 30 people and wounded 47 others outside a police station in a predominantly Shi'ite town north of Baghdad on Friday (September 12), Iraqi police said.
    The attack in Dujail, Salahuddin province, was one of the deadliest in Iraq in months and shows militants are still capable of carrying out large-scale bombings despite major security gains across the country.
    Major Ahmed Subhi, head of an anti-terrorism unit in the province, told Reuters that 30 people were killed and 47 wounded.
    Police said the bombing occurred just before dusk, when many people were on the streets before the breaking of the fast during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.
    They said casualties were a mix of civilians shopping at a nearby market as well as police.
    Dujail lies 50 km (30 miles) north of Baghdad.
    The attack bore the hallmarks of Sunni Islamist al Qaeda.
    A series of military offensives by U.S. and Iraqi forces has significantly weakened the militant group and forced its fighters into northern provinces such as Salahuddin.
    Violence overall in Iraq has fallen to levels not seen since early 2004. Those security gains have allowed U.S. forces to begin withdrawing from Iraq.
    Dujail was the site of an assassination attempt on former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 1982.
    Saddam, toppled in the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, was hanged in December 2006 after being found guilty in the killing of scores of Shi'ite men in Dujail after the attempt on his life.
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