IRAQ: A series of bombs around Iraq's capital Baghdad kill 13 and wound more than 50

Record ID: 357523

  • Title: IRAQ: A series of bombs around Iraq's capital Baghdad kill 13 and wound more than 50
  • Date: 29th June 2012
  • Summary: TAJI, BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JUNE 28, 2012) (REUTERS) WRECKAGE OF CAR BOMB AT SCENE WITH CROWD OF PEOPLE IN THE BACKGROUND CAR WRECKED BY BLAST AT SCENE AND PEOPLE NEARBY BUILDING DESTROYED BY BLAST AND RUBBLE SCATTERED IN FRONT OF IT DAMAGED CAR PARKING IN FRONT OF DAMAGED BUILDING AT BLAST SCENE ANOTHER CAR WRECKED BY BLAST NEAR DAMAGED BUILDING DAMAGED BUILDING WITH BROK
  • Embargoed: 14th July 2012 13:00
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  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVAGZTC0OEE8K5UF6D1ISSGNEAB
  • Story Text: Three bombings in and around Baghdad killed 13 people and wounded more than 50 on Thursday (June 28), hospital sources and police said, the latest in a wave of attacks to raise fears of a return to widespread sectarian violence in Iraq.
    A car bomb attack in Taji, a town 20 km (12 miles) north of the capital, killed four and wounded 20 in the early hours of the morning, police said. The bomb in the mainly Sunni town targeted a residential building and left it severely damaged.
    "Three minutes separated each blast from the other. The first blast took place at ten to five (at dawn) followed by two bombs in less than ten minutes. We informed bomb disposal units and they told us that they would come soon, but it took them more than an hour and a half to arrive. We evacuated the wounded because ambulance did not come," said a man from the area.
    In the deadliest of Thursday's attacks, at least eight people were killed and 30 wounded when a bomb in a parked car exploded at the entrance of a Baghdad market in the mainly Shi'ite Muslim district of Washash, hospital sources and police said.
    A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed one and wounded five in Abu Dsheer, a Shi'ite area in southern Baghdad, police said.
    Violence in Iraq has fallen since a peak in 2006-07, but insurgents remain capable of lethal attacks.
    More than 150 people have been killed in June across the country in a spike in attacks targeting mainly Shi'ite pilgrims and shrines.
    Iraq's Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish factions have been locked in political disputes since the last U.S. troops withdrew in December, aggravating existing tensions.
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