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Twin bomb attacks strike Fallujah
(AKI) - At least 13 people were killed and another 50 injured in twin bomb attacks carried out in the Iraqi city of Fallujah on Thursday. According to early media reports, the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers who targeted police at two checkpoints in the city."The first blast was carried out by a car bomb targeting a checkpoint in the al-Sakaniya region in western Falluja, while no information was available on the second blast," an eyewitness told the news agency, Voices of Iraq. The number of victims was expected to rise because many of the victims were trapped in the ruins after the blast. Fallujah is one of the main cities in the western province of Anbar, which was at the centre of the Sunni-led rebellion against US forces after the 2003 invasion. On Tuesday three bombs killed at least 14 people across Iraq, officials said. A bomb hidden in a cart exploded outside a school in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday, killing four people, including two children and wounding 12 others, police said. A suicide car bomber killed at least five people and wounded 25 near a checkpoint in Tal Afar in northern Iraq and a roadside bomb struck an Iraqi army convoy in Hilla, south of Baghdad, killing five Iraqi soldiers. The spate of attacks followed the Iraqi Parliament's approval last week of a new security pact that provides for the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq by the end of 2011. Many attacks are believed to be aimed at reigniting violence between minority Sunni Arabs and the majority Shia population ahead of provincial elections in January. Posted by: Fred 2008-12-05 |
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