Iraq Bom Blast : 24 killed in bomb attacks in Baghdad
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Iraq: Suicide bomber attack kills 12 people north of Kut province
Subscribe to ITN News: http://bit.ly/1bmWO8h At least 12 people have been killed and 26 others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint ...
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Iraq: Suicide bomber attack kills 12 people north of Kut province - Video
April 22, 2014
Security forces remove a damaged car and other debris at the site of a suicide attack at a checkpoint north of Kut province yesterday. Reuters pic, April 22, 2014.Attacks including five suicide bombings hit various areas of Iraq yesterday, killing at least 26 people as parliamentary elections loom next week, the first since American troops departed.
Iraq is suffering a protracted surge in bloodshed that has killed more than 2,750 people so far this year, and the UN envoy warned yesterday that militants were seeking to stoke sectarian tensions between the Shiite Muslim majority and the Sunni Arab minority.
In the deadliest attack, a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle rigged with explosives at a police checkpoint in the Suweirah area, south of Baghdad, killing 13 people and wounding 35, a police officer and a medical source said.
Another suicide bomber blew up a vehicle at a checkpoint in Madain, killing at least two people and wounding five, while gunmen shot dead one person and wounded at least one other in Latifiyah, officials said.
In the Sadr City area of north Baghdad, a car bomb in an area of shops killed five people and wounded at least 12. A car bomb in the Shaab area killed at least two people and wounded at least nine.
A suicide bomber also struck a commercial street in the central Karrada district, killing three people and wounding at least 14, while two more suicide bombings in cities north of Baghdad left one person wounded.
Iraqi soldiers and police deployed in force on the street in Karrada that was hit by the blast, which shattered nearby shop windows.
At the site of the explosion, security forces examined a charred piece of what appeared to be human remains, as shop workers and other bystanders looked on.
The attacks came a day after violence in Iraq, including a suicide bombing at Baghdad's Imam Kadhim University, killed at least 16 people.
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Iraqis gather at the scene of a car bomb explosion at a checkpoint in the Suweirah area, 45 kms south of Baghdad, on April 21, 2014
Iraq is going through a protracted surge in bloodshed that has killed more than 2,750 people so far this year and the UN envoy warned on Monday that militants were seeking to stoke sectarian tensions between the Shiite Muslim majority and the Sunni Arab minority.
In the deadliest attack, a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle rigged with explosives at a police checkpoint in the Suweirah area, south of Baghdad, killing 13 people and wounding 35, a police officer and a medical source said.
Another suicide bomber blew up a vehicle at a checkpoint in Madain, killing at least two people and wounding five, while gunmen shot dead one person and wounded at least one other in Latifiyah, officials said.
In the Sadr City area of north Baghdad, a car bomb in an area of shops killed five people and wounded at least 12. A car bomb in the Shaab area killed at least two people and wounded at least nine.
The attacks came a day after violence in Iraq, including a suicide bombing at Baghdad's Imam Kadhim University, killed at least 16 people.
UN envoy Nickolay Mladenov condemned the attack on the university, which is run by the Shiite religious endowment, as an attempt to stoke sectarianism.
"This is yet another example of sectarian-based violence that the people of this country need to fight in order to bring this country to tranquility, and it is happening at a time when the Iraqi people are preparing to go to the polls in a few days," Mladenov said.
"The target has been selected to incite sectarian hatred."
The April 30 vote is Iraq's first parliamentary election since US forces withdrew in 2011 and is a major test for the security forces.
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Iraq attacks kill 23 as election looms