A bloody end to the Eid celebrations

A bloody end to the Eid celebrations in Iraq



Date: August 11, 2013

Iraqi security forces inspect the site of a car bomb in the city of Nasiriyah Reuters
Did not invalidate the Eid al-Fitr peacefully in Iraq yesterday, where a series of bloody bombings rocked different parts was nine simultaneous attacks in Baghdad neighborhoods targeted and overcrowded Bamahtvelin markets, which led to dozens of deaths and injured more than 200 injured.

According to sources, Iraqi security and medical yesterday that about 60 Iraqis were killed and more than 200 wounded injured a series of bombings, through car bombs rocked the capital Baghdad in nine different areas, including the continuation of the violence that escalated in Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr.

And hit the bombings near-simultaneous revival of several in the Iraqi capital, most of them with a Shiite majority, where the targeted markets and streets of the busy commercial areas Diyala Bridge and Kadhimiya district worker and market waterfall area people and the New Baghdad and NAHRAWAN, Baya and near the bridge people in the torch in the Iraqi capital, with the imminent end of the Eid al-Fitr .

Outside Baghdad, security sources and medical A suicide bomber detonated a bomb in a crowded street car in the town of Tuz Khurmatu, 170 kilometers north of the capital, killing ten people and injuring 45 others.

And Tuz Khurmatu is located in a region where violence, particularly where disputed by the central government and the Kurdistan region of Iraq's semi-autonomous.

The police source said that police believed the bomber was trying to reach a local headquarters of a Kurdish political party, but failed to achieve his goal because of heightened security measures in the region.

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Earlier, 16 people were killed in separate acts.

He said a police source in Nineveh province, said ?unidentified gunmen stormed the army's house in the village of his torso, (90 km south of Mosul), and opened fire on him, killing him on the spot.

As another source said police in maintaining that ?an explosive device was placed on the side of the road exploded an Iraqi army patrol in the Cairo neighborhood north of Mosul, wounding one of the members of the patrol, and two civilians encountered مرورهما the moment of the explosion.

In a related context, the killing of three wounded girl the fall of Katyusha rockets in the neighborhood of the fight in the district of Tal Afar, west of Mosul.

Furthermore, Iraqi police said two people were killed and a woman was injured in an attack by gunmen on their house in the city of Hilla (100 km south of Baghdad). The sources informed that ?Gunmen attacked a house in the city of Hilla, killing the father and son and wounding his wife and fled.


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Killed more than 1,000 people in violence in Iraq during the month of Ramadan and Eid, what makes them the bloodiest period since the year 2008. Statement

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