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Bomb blasts kill 15 in Baghdad: Officials
[Al Ahram] Iraqi authorities say evening kabooms in two Storied Baghdad...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... neighborhoods have killed 15 people and maimed dozens. The attacks Wednesday extend a wave of bloodshed that marks the country's most sustained violence since the 2011 US military withdrawal. Police say the deadliest attack struck the northwestern Sunni neighborhood of Ghazaliyah, where a roadside kaboom and boom-mobile went kaboom!near a market, killing 10 and wounding 25. Another boom-mobile went kaboom!in the mixed Sunni-Shiite area of Hay Jihad, killing five and wounding 18. Hospital officials confirmed the casualties. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information to news hounds. Posted by: Fred 2013-05-30 |
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