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| Iraq |
| Car Bomb at Market North of Baghdad Kills 16 |
| 2013-08-30 |
| [An Nahar] A boom-mobile destroyed a popular fruit and vegetable market north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... on Thursday, killing at least 16 people as Iraqis searched for cut-price groceries. The blast, which also maimed 25 people, struck in the predominantly Sunni Arab city of Samarra at about 6:45 pm (1545 GMT). It came a day after a wave of nationwide violence -- including a spate of bombings in the Iraqi capital -- killed at least 75 people. The attack was the latest in a surge of unrest, with more than 3,700 people killed so far this year, that has sparked concerns Iraq is headed back to the all-out bloodshed that left tens of thousands dead in 2006 and 2007. It follows security operations targeting snuffies in Storied Baghdad and to the north and west, though the government has faced charges of not dealing with the root causes of the country's worst violence since 2008. Thursday evening's attack struck the Samarra market, locally known as the Mraydi, at a time when struggling Iraqis typically frequent it in order to take advantage of reduced prices as surplus stock is sold before closing. In all, 16 people were killed, including three women and two children, and 25 people were maimed, a police officer and a doctor said. The market, the city's biggest grocery shopping area, lies in the Jiberia neighborhood of eastern Samarra. Attacks elsewhere in Iraq left three others dead -- a soldier, a civilian and a bad boy who was rubbed out as he was trying to plant a roadside kaboom. On Wednesday, at least 75 people were killed and more than 200 maimed in a wave of shootings and bombings across Iraq, with the violence mostly targeting the country's Shiite Moslem majority. |
| Posted by:Fred |