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| Iraq |
| 13 dead in blasts in and around Baghdad |
| 2011-05-23 |
| [Emirates 24/7] A series of bombings in and around Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed 13 people, including seven coppers, and maimed 65 on Sunday, security officials said. A total of 11 roadside kabooms, two vehicles packed with explosives and one suicide kaboomer struck in the spate of morning blasts, although it was not immediately clear if the violence was coordinated. The deadliest attack saw seven coppers killed and 10 others maimed in a suicide kaboom in the town of Taji, 25 kilometres (15 miles) north of the capital, an interior ministry official said, on condition of anonymity. A car boom had initially gone off at around 9:00 am (0600 GMT) in the town, and when residents and ambulance crews arrived at the scene, a jacket wallah went kaboom!", the official said. Four roadside kabooms and a car boom near a cop shoppe in the south Storied Baghdad neighbourhood of Al-Amil killed two people and maimed 15, including three policeman, while a roadside kaboom in Saidiyah, also in the south, maimed three people. Two separate roadside kabooms, one near a hospital and another near a popular market, in the predominantly Shiite north Storied Baghdad district of Sadr City left two people dead and 14 maimed, the interior ministry official said. Also in north Storied Baghdad, a roadside kaboom targeting a police brigadier general's convoy killed a civilian and maimed five people, including two of the senior commander's bodyguards. Two roadside kabooms in central Al-Wathiq square killed one person and maimed 12, six of them coppers, while a kaboom in eastern Beirut Square maimed six. |
| Posted by:Fred |