- Title: IRAQ-: Baghdad car bomb in Washash district kills five.
- Date: 10th September 2012
- Summary: WASHASH DISTRICT, BAGHDAD, IRAQ (SEPTEMBER 10, 2012) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) DAMAGED SHOPS WITH WRECKAGE OF TWISTED METALS LITTERING PLACE / CARS DRIVING BY DAMAGED ROW OF SHOPS WITH WRECKAGE ON GROUND AND DAMAGED CAR PARKED NEARBY WRECKAGE OF TWISTED IRON BARS AND DAMAGED CAR IN BACKGROUND DAMAGE AND WRECKAGE CAUSED BY BAST CAR DRIVING BY/ TWO ON MOTORCYCLE LOOKING AT DAMA
- Embargoed: 25th September 2012 13:00
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- Location: Iraq
- Country: Iraq
- Topics: Crime,Politics
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- Story Text: Twisted metal and debris litter the streets of a Washash neighbourhood after a car bomb ripped through one of Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite districts killing five and wounding more than 17 others.
Local residents of Baghdad's Washash district woke to wreckage and debris still littering the streets on Monday (September 10) a day after a series of bombs ripped through mainly Shi'ite Baghdad districts.
Twisted metal hung from wrecked shop windows with shattered glass littering the streets as passersby paused to look on at the damage wrought by a car bomb at the residential area.
The attack killed five civilians and wounded more than 17 others, police and hospital sources said on Sunday (September 9), and came after Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi was sentenced to death, ending one of the bloodiest days of the year with more than 100 killed across the country.
One local spoke of his distress after witnessing the attack:
"We were sitting here in safety after sunset prayer when the blast took place. Men were sitting in front of their shops when the blast happened, hurting innocent people. There is no police headquarters and no army headquarters and the area is not a haven for terrorists. There is also no Americans to target."
The violence and the sentence for Hashemi, a senior Sunni politician, threatens to stoke sectarian tensions in Iraq where a Shi'ite-led government is battling political instability and a Sunni Islamist insurgency nine months after U.S. troops left.
Hours before the sentence was announced, a wave of bombings and shootings had already killed at least 58 people and a car bomb had exploded outside a French consular office in Nassiriya in southern Iraq.
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