Monday 29 July 2013

IRAQ IN THE NEWS AGAIN AS CITY IS ROCKED WITH CAR BOMBS LEAVING 60 PEOPLE DEAD

It looks like this city may just never rest......Read on

Car bombs ripped through busy streets and markets in Iraq on today, killing at least 60 people in predominantly Shi'ite areas in some of the deadliest violence since Sunni insurgents stepped up attacks this year.

The 17 blasts, which appeared to be coordinated, were concentrated on towns and cities in Iraq's mainly Shi'ite south, and districts of the capital where Shi'ites live.
Militant groups including Al Qaeda have increased attacks in recent months in an insurgency against the Shi'ite-led government as a civil war in neighbouring Syria heightens sectarian tensions.

The violence has raised fears of a return to full-blown inter-community conflict in a country where ethnic Kurds, majority Shi'ites and Sunni Muslims have yet to find a stable way of sharing power
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Aftermath: The bombing in Baghdad took place in Sadr City, a Shi'ite stronghold which has repeatedly targeted by Sunni insurgents
Reduced t rubble: An Iraqi soldier inspects the site of the bomb attack in Basra as people begin to clean up the debris left behind
Devastation: People inspect the site of car bomb explosion in Basra as Iraqi women carry on with their daily lives amid the wreckage
Sectarian warfare: Kut is 93 miles from Baghdad in a part of the country which is mainly Shi'ite

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