IRAQ: At least five people die and fourteen are injured in a car bomb attack in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad

Record ID: 357733

  • Title: IRAQ: At least five people die and fourteen are injured in a car bomb attack in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad
  • Date: 30th January 2014
  • Summary: LINE OF AMBULANCES AND RELATIVES OF VICTIMS OUTSIDE HOSPITAL WITH COFFINS ON TOP OF MINIBUSES
  • Embargoed: 14th February 2014 12:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA26DTK7Z3SP6SA267KCCGMILH5
  • Story Text: At least five civilians were killed in a car bomb attack in a predominantly Shi'ite district in northern Baghdad on Thursday (January 30) police said.
    Police said more than 14 people were injured in the blast that took place in the al-Kasra district of Baghdad.

    "A car bomb went off here damaging cars and hurting poor people. Those who did this act are terrorists," said an unidentified eye witness.
    Some of the injured were taken to a hospital in Baghdad.
    The blast followed attacks by three car bombs targeting mainly Shi'ite districts of the Iraqi capital on Wednesday evening (January 29) that killed at least 16 people.
    According to official sources the death toll so far this month has reached nearly 1,000.
    No group claimed responsibility for the blasts, but members of the country's Shi'ite majority are often targeted by Sunni Islamist insurgents, some linked with al Qaeda, who have regained ground in Iraq over the past year.
    Twin blasts in the capital's southern Shula district on Wednesday (January 29) evening killed seven people and a car bomb in New Baghdad claimed a further five lives. Another explosion in Talibiya killed four, and in Camp Sarah, a mainly Christian neighbourhood, gunmen shot three dead.
    The al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has exploited resentment among minority Sunnis against the Shi'ite-led government for policies perceived as unfairly penalising their once-dominant community.
    Violence in Iraq reached its highest level in five years in 2013, with nearly 9,000 people killed, the United Nations said.
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