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Bomb attack kills 52 in Iraq
[DAWN] Bomb attacks hit the Iraqi capital Storied Baghdad...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... and a village near the northern town of Baquba on Wednesday, killing at least 52 people, police and hospital sources said. In the deadliest incident, a bomb blew up in a funeral tent where mourners were marking the death two days ago of a Sunni Moslem pro-government militiaman, police said. It killed 18 people and maimed 16 in Shatub, a village south of Baquba. Two years after US troops left Iraq, violence has climbed back to its highest levels since the Sunni-Shia bloodshed of 2006-2007, when tens of thousands of people were killed. Al Qaeda-linked Death Eaters are pursuing a campaign of attacks, mostly directed at state targets, Shia civilians and Sunnis seen as loyal to the Shia-led government. Half a dozen boom-mobiles went kaboom!across the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, mostly in Shia districts, killing 34 people and wounding 71, police and medics said. The violence occurred amid a continuing standoff between the Iraqi army and Sunni Death Eaters who overran the city of Falluja west of Storied Baghdad more than two weeks ago in a challenge to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government. Posted by: Fred 2014-01-16 |
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