- Title: IRAQ: Iraq reels after day of deadly attacks.
- Date: 10th September 2012
- Summary: VARIOUS OF SCATTERED FURNITURE INSIDE HOUSE UR DISTRICT, BAGHDAD, IRAQ (SEPTEMBER 10, 2012) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL): NURSE TENDING TO WOUNDED MAN WOUNDED MAN LYING IN HOSPITAL BED WOUNDED MAN WITH BANDAGED BACK LYING FACE DOWN ON HOSPITAL BED TWO MEN STANDING NEAR BED OF WOUNDED RELATIVE WOUNDED MAN LYING ON BED WOUNDED MEN IN HOSPITAL WARD
- Embargoed: 25th September 2012 13:00
- Keywords:
- Location: Iraq
- Country: Iraq
- Topics: Crime,Politics
- Reuters ID: LVADBOBHYZ1XNV1YS5A152WGZ6EA
- Story Text: Iraqis caught up in bloody attacks on Sunday (September 9) are treated for severe wounds, as residents start repairing damaged homes and streets.
Iraqis caught up in a wave of violence around the country on Sunday (September 9) were coming to terms with the extent of the damage.
Late on Sunday night, a car bomb exploded outside a cafe in the Shi'ite district of Ur in northern Baghdad. Police sources said it killed 21 people and wounded 71 others.
Some of the wounded were recovering in hospital on Monday (September 10), dealing with injuries that are likely to change their lives for ever. One man, who lost an arm in the bombing, spoke to media about the explosion from his hospital bed.
Shop keepers and residents near the blast scene have started clearing the damage from their homes and stores, loading the debris in to trucks to be carted away.
The scene of destruction was just one of many seen around Iraq on Sunday.
More than 100 people were killed across the country in one of the bloodiest days this year.
A series of car bombs tore through mainly Shi'ite Baghdad districts after Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi was sentenced to death.
The violence and the sentence for Hashemi, a senior Sunni politician, threatened 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.
Hashemi, a fierce critic of Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, fled Iraq after the authorities issued a warrant for his arrest in December, a move that risked collapsing a fragile power-sharing agreement among Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish blocs.
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.
Since the last U.S. troops left, Maliki's Shi'ite-led government has been politically deadlocked and insurgents have continued to strike, hoping to ignite the kind of sectarian tensions that drove Iraq close to civil war in 2006-2007.
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