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50 killed, hundreds injured in Iraq attacks
Thursday February 23, 2012 06:07:03 PM,
IANS
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Baghdad: At least 50
people were killed and hundreds wounded Thursday in a series of
bomb and gun attacks across the Iraqi capital, police said.
The violence targeted predominantly Shia areas, in particular
police officers and checkpoints, the BBC reported.
In the capital city of Baghdad, nine people were killed in two
successive blasts in the central Karrada district. Outside the
capital, at least two were killed in Baquba city.
No group claimed responsibility for the violence.
In the incidents around Baghdad, six people were killed after a
car bomb blast in Shia-dominated Kadhimiya area.
Another six people were killed by gunmen at a police checkpoint in
the Baghdad's Sarafiya district.
At least two people died and five injured in an explosion in the
western al-Mansour district.
In southern Baghdad, two people were killed while 10 wounded in
two explosions in Dorat Abo Sheer area.
In another incident in southern Baghdad, an attack by assailants
on a police patrol in Saidiya area left two people as killed and
nine wounded.
Seven people, most of them policemen, suffered injuries in a blast
in al-Madaen, south of Baghdad while five civilians were wounded
in a bomb explosion in Taji, north of Baghdad.
There were also attacks in Mosul, Kirkuk and the province of
Salahuddin.
Iraqi cities have been plagued by waves of deadly attacks
including suicide bombings since the US troops pulled out of the
country in December last year.
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