IRAQ: Half a dozen car bombs explode in Baghdad killing at least 50 people. In one of the blasts, a car bomb in Karrada district, killing seven people and wounding 19 others

Record ID: 357728

  • Title: IRAQ: Half a dozen car bombs explode in Baghdad killing at least 50 people. In one of the blasts, a car bomb in Karrada district, killing seven people and wounding 19 others
  • Date: 15th January 2014
  • Summary: PEOPLE AT BLAST SCENE BURNT OUT CAR STREET CLEANERS SWEEPING UP GLASS DAMAGED CAR DIGGER CLEARING DEBRIS
  • Embargoed: 30th January 2014 12:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA86V3MQG4M4AI4RR6I9SU749DA
  • Story Text: Bomb attacks hit the Iraqi capital Baghdad and a village near the northern town of Baquba on Wednesday, killing at least 52 people, police and hospital sources said.
    In the deadliest incident, a bomb blew up in a funeral tent where mourners were marking the death two days ago of a Sunni Muslim pro-government militiaman, police said. It killed 18 people and wounded 16 in Shatub, a village south of Baquba.
    Half a dozen car bombs exploded across the Iraqi capital, mostly in Shi'ite districts, killing 34 people and wounding 71, police and medics said. In one of the blasts, a car bomb exploded in Karrada district, killing seven people and wounding 19 others.
    Two years after U.S. troops left Iraq, violence has returned to its highest levels since the Sunni-Shi'ite bloodshed of 2006-2007, when tens of thousands of people were killed.
    Al Qaeda-linked militants are pursuing a campaign of attacks, mostly directed at state targets, Shi'ite civilians and Sunnis seen as loyal to the Shi'ite-led government.
    The violence comes during a stand-off between the Iraqi army and Sunni militants who overran the city of Falluja west of Baghdad more than two weeks ago in a challenge to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government.
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