IRAQ: Residents in Iraq's capital Baghdad are in shock and mourn the death of at least 15 people killed in three separate car bomb attacks in Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite neighbourhoods

Record ID: 489328

  • Title: IRAQ: Residents in Iraq's capital Baghdad are in shock and mourn the death of at least 15 people killed in three separate car bomb attacks in Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite neighbourhoods
  • Date: 16th March 2014
  • Summary: BAGHDAD, IRAQ (MARCH 16, 2014) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF MINIBUS CARRYING COFFIN AND MOURNERS ON ROOF/AUDIO OF GUNFIRE MAN SITTING WEEPING WOMEN MOURNERS VARIOUS OF PEOPLE CARRYING COFFIN OUTSIDE HOUSE AND MOURNERS WALKING BEHIND WOMEN MOURNERS WALKING BEHIND COFFIN CROWD OF MOURNERS WALKING BEHIND COFFIN SIGN ON WALL OF HOUSE MOURNING DEATH OF YOUNG MAN KILLED IN BLAST (
  • Embargoed: 31st March 2014 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA4HRA7V8YJXVNQVNP7GVMZOSWV
  • Story Text: At least 15 people were killed and more than 50 others injured in three separate car bomb attacks in Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite neighbourhoods of Ameen, al-Qahera and al-Amil on Saturday (March 15), police said.
    Dozens of residents gathered in Ameen early on Sunday (March 16), to mourn two of the victims.
    It was not clear who was behind the bombing but violence against Shi'ites is often blamed on the Sunni Muslim Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an al Qaeda-linked group.

    "People would not have died, if politicians had reconciled. Kurds are in one side, the Shi'ites are in another side and the Sunnis are in one side. They do not have any mercy on people, if they had mercy on them, they would have told people frankly what have happened yesterday instead of saying that only two people were killed. They did not come and saw people who were lying dead in Ameen and Qahera," said Abu Hassan, a resident of Ameen.
    Baghdad has been hit by wave after wave of bombings since April as the precarious peace enjoyed since the end of Iraq's sectarian war in 2008 has unravelled.
    Explosives and suicide bombs have been favoured by Sunni extremists as they seek to target Shi'ite areas and intimidate their own religious community.
    In a separate attack, a minibus bomb went off outside the house of a police officer in the city of Tikrit, Salahuddin province, 150 km (39 miles) north of the capital Baghdad on Saturday, wounding more than 30 people, police said.
    They said that the police officer Qais al-Rashid was not at the house when the attack happened, adding that his wife and three children were wounded in the attack that also serious damaged his house.
    The latest wave of bloodshed comes as Prime Minister Nouri Maliki wages a war against Sunni militants in western Anbar province near the Syrian border, which has become a base for ISIL.
    Despite the offensive, the pace of attacks around the country goes on undiminished.
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