IRAQ: Residents in Baghdad's Husseiniya district inspect the damage caused by a car bomb that killed at least eight people and wounded 23

Record ID: 357653

  • Title: IRAQ: Residents in Baghdad's Husseiniya district inspect the damage caused by a car bomb that killed at least eight people and wounded 23
  • Date: 25th April 2013
  • Summary: BAGHDAD, IRAQ (APRIL 25, 2013) (REUTERS) WRECKAGE OF CAR BOMB IN FRONT OF DAMAGED BUILDING CAR BOMB WRECKAGE VARIOUS OF BULLDOZER REMOVING WRECKAGE OF CAR AND RUBBLE RUBBLE AND TWISTED METAL ON GROUND DAMAGED STALL WOMAN SWEEPING BROKEN GLASS ON GROUND MAN INSPECTING DEBRIS IN HOUSE WITH BROKEN FURNITURE MAN MOVING CURTAIN ON GROUND CONTAINING SHARDS OF BROKEN GLASS
  • Embargoed: 10th May 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime
  • Reuters ID: LVA8S5GH5PB0VNXY25OCKQPNH4GK
  • Story Text: Residents in Baghdad's Husseiniya district inspected damage on Thursday (April 25), after a car bomb attack the day before.
    At least eight people were killed and 23 wounded when the car bomb exploded near shops and restaurants on Wednesday (April 24), police and medical sources said.
    No one has yet claimed responsibility for the blast, but Iraq's al Qaeda wing and other Sunni Islamist insurgents have often hit the capital in their campaign to undermine the country's Shi'ite-led government.
    More than 30 people were also killed in gun battles between Iraqi forces and militants on Wednesday, a day after a raid on a Sunni Muslim protest ignited the fiercest clashes since American troops left the country.
    A surge in Sunni militant unrest has accompanied growing turmoil among the Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish parties that make up Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's power-sharing government.
    A decade after the U.S.-led invasion, sectarian wounds are still raw in Iraq, where just a few a years ago violence between Shi'ite militias and Sunni Islamist insurgents killed tens of thousands of people.
    Sectarian bloodshed reached its height in Iraq in 2006-2007 after al Qaeda bombed the Shi'ite Askari shrine in Samarra, triggering a cycle of retaliation.
    Thousands of Sunnis have been protesting since December, venting frustrations building up since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the empowerment of Iraq's Shi'ite majority through the ballot box.
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