IRAQ: At least 17 people are wounded when two car bombs go off simultaneously in Iraq's southern city of Basra

Record ID: 357707

  • Title: IRAQ: At least 17 people are wounded when two car bombs go off simultaneously in Iraq's southern city of Basra
  • Date: 13th October 2013
  • Summary: POOL OF BLOOD ON THE GROUND
  • Embargoed: 28th October 2013 12:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime,Conflict
  • Reuters ID: LVABLN85SE2CEV0ZK4QIASQKY5BZ
  • Story Text: At least 17 people were wounded when two car bombs went off simultaneously in two separate locations in Iraq's southern city of Basra on Sunday (October 13), police and medics said.
    A shop owner at one of the blast scenes desribed what happened.
    "A blast took place here and one minute later a second car bomb went off here. A man was wounded here [points] and another one there and a third one was lying under tyres," Kadhim Faleh said.
    The attack was part of a wave of car bomb attacks that ripped through busy streets and markets in mostly Shi'ite Muslim provinces of Iraq on Sunday ahead of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha.
    Altogether 11 bombs were detonated by remote control. The deadliest attack took place in the city of Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, when two car bombs blew up in quick succession, killing at least five people, police said.
    It was not immediately clear who was behind Sunday's attacks, which appeared to be coordinated, but Sunni Islamist and other insurgents, including al-Qaeda, have been regaining ground this year.
    More than 6,000 people have been killed in acts of violence so far in 2013, reversing a decline in sectarian bloodshed that climaxed in 2006-07.
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