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| Iraq bomb attacks kill 21, wound more than 100 |
| 2012-06-29 |
| [Dawn] A series of attacks in Iraq killed 20 people and maimed more than 100 on Thursday, security and medical officials said, the latest in a wave of deadly attacks this month. In the worst incident, a car booming in a popular market in the capital killed eight people and maimed 30, a police colonel and a medical official said. Another car boom went kaboom!near a Shia place of worship in Baquba north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , killing six people and wounding 51, said police and Dr Ahmed Ibrahim of Baquba General Hospital. That attack came after a bombing in the city killed two people and maimed four, a police lieutenant said, while a police major said three people were maimed in an attack near the city. Ibrahim said the hospital had also received two bodies and seven people maimed in the earlier attacks. Another car boom killed two people and maimed 15 in Taji, also north of Storied Baghdad, an interior ministry official said. In Samarra, farther north, gunnies killed two Sahwa anti-Al-Qaeda faceless myrmidons and maimed two more at a roadblock, according to a Sahwa leader and a medical source. And five people were maimed in the former myrmidon town of Ramadi west of Storied Baghdad when a car boom went kaboom!in a parking area belonging to a state-run immigration office, police and a medical source said. Thursday's deaths brought to more than 200 the number of people killed since June 13 -- a far higher toll than the 132 killed in the entire month of May. Attacks on June 13, which killed 72 people across the country, were later claimed by Al-Qaeda's front group, the Islamic State of Iraq. Two car booms targeting Shias killed 32 people in the capital on June 16, while two days later, a jacket wallah killed 22 people in an attack on Shia mourners in Baquba, north of Storied Baghdad. At least 12 people were killed by roadside kabooms, a suicide car boom and a shooting on June 22, while 12 more killed in two bombings on June 25. And on Wednesday, three bombings killed 11 people, security and medical officials said. |
| Posted by:Fred |