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35 killed, 163 wounded in violent attacks in Iraq
[Xinhua] At least 35 people were killed and 163 others maimed in a wave of violent attacks across Iraq on Sunday, police said.AQI has renamed themselves the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. If it's Islamic it's violent, so it doesn't matter where they call home... At least seven people were killed and 13 others maimed Sunday evening when two boom-mobiles went off near a Shiite mosque in New Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... area in eastern Storied Baghdad, a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. Earlier in the day, a jacket wallah blew up his explosive vest among a crowd of Shiite pilgrims in Seliekh district in the northern part of Storied Baghdad, killing 12 people and wounding 25. The attacks came as thousands of Shiite pilgrims walked from other Storied Baghdad districts in processions to commemorate the death of Imam Mohammed al-Jawad, the ninth of the 12 most revered Shiite Imams, whose tomb is located in the center of the old part of the holy Shiite Kadhimiya district. In northern Iraq, up to 15 people were killed and some 122 others maimed Sunday morning when two suicide boom-mobiles went off at a village near the city of Tal Afar in the province of Nineveh, Abdul- Aal al-Abbasi, an official in the city's local government told Xinhua. "The reports said that a total of five coppers, school principal and nine school children were killed and 122 people were maimed in the two suicide boom-mobiles near a school and a cop shoppe in the village of Qabat," Abbasi said. Most of the maimed were school children and many of them are at death's door, Abbasi added. One of the blasts occurred when a suicide bomber blew up a truck loaded with explosives near a primary school in a predominantly Shiite Turkoman village outside the city of Tal Afar, about 430 km north of the Iraqi capital of Storied Baghdad, Abbasi said. The kaboom damaged part of the school building. The Iraqi security forces and rescue teams rushed to the scenes to remove the debris of building in search for victims, Abbasi added. Another boom-mobile went off near a cop shoppe in the same area, Abbasi said without giving further details. Also on Sunday, a boom-mobile went kaboom!near a patrol of Iraq's Kurdish Asayish security forces in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... some 250 km north of Storied Baghdad, killing one soldier and injuring three people, a local police source told Xinhua. Posted by: Fred 2013-10-07 |
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