Bombings kill 53 in Iraq

A wave of car bombings and other attacks in Iraq killed at least 53 people in mostly Shia-majority cities on Sunday, another bloody reminder of the government’s failure to stem the surge of violence that is feeding sectarian tensions.


Sunday’s deadliest attack was in the city of Hillah, 95km south of Baghdad, where a car bomb near an outdoor market killed nine civilians and wounded 15 others, a police officer said. A few minutes later, another car bomb went off nearby, killing six civilians and wounding 14, he added.



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In the nearby town of Iskandariyah, 50km south of the capital, another car bomb hit a parking lot, killing four civilians and wounding nine, police said.



Another car bomb went off in an industrial area of the city of Karbala, killing five and wounding 25, a police officer said. Karbala is 80km south of Baghdad. In the aftermath, security officials inspected burnt-out cars in front of what appeared to be a smashed row of workshops.



In Kut, 160km southeast of Baghdad, a car bomb targeted construction workers and food stalls, killing two and wounding 14, another provincial police officer said.



Seven more civilians were killed and 31 others were wounded when four separate car bombs ripped through the towns of Suwayrah and Hafriyah outside Kut, police said.



In Baghdad’s northern Sunni-dominated Azamiyah neighbourhood, a car bomb that exploded near the convoy of the head of Baghdad’s provincial council killed three and wounded eight, police say. The council head escaped unharmed.



Two other car bombs hit the southern cities of Basra and Nasiriyah, killing eight civilians and wounding 26, two police officers said. And two more civilians were killed when a bomb hit a police patrol in Baghdad’s Sunni western suburb of Abu Ghraib. Nine other people were wounded.



To the northeast of Baghdad, gunmen broke into a farm in the village of Abu Sayda and killed three Sunni farmers, police said

No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts, which targeted commercial areas and parking lots in seven cities.



But systematically organised waves of bombings are often used by Al Qaeda’s local branch, known as the Islamic State of Iraq, to undermine confidence in the Shia-led government.



Sometimes insurgents launch multiple attacks for two or more days in a row. On Saturday, 27 people were killed in suicide attacks, bombings and shootings.



In the afternoon, police found the bodies of four Sunni men killed with gunshots to the head. The men, all relatives, were kidnapped early Sunday by gunmen who stormed their house in Baghdad’s southern Youssifiyah suburb.



Eleven medical officials confirmed the casualty figures.



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