47 killed as Baghdad area hit by wave of car bombs
A destroyed vehicle is removed following a car bomb in a car park in Baghdad Jadida, on September 30, 2013. Nine car bombs mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad province killed at least 30 people and wounded more than 100, security and medical officials said. AFP/PHOTO
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- The bombs struck nine different areas, six of them Shiite-majority, one confessionally mixed and two Sunni-majority.
BAGHDAD,
Twelve car bombs, mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas in and around Baghdad, killed at least 47 people and wounded more than 140 on Monday, security and medical officials said.
The blasts were the latest in a string of sectarian attacks in central Iraq that have raised the spectre of a return to the intense Sunni-Shiite violence that peaked in 2006-2007 and killed tens of thousands of people.
The bombs struck nine different areas, six of them Shiite-majority, one confessionally mixed and two Sunni-majority.
The deadliest attacks hit Kadhimiyah, a mainly Shiite area of north Baghdad, where two car bombs killed at least nine people and wounded another 19.
In Baghdad Jadida, a bomb exploded in a car park, burning vehicles, destroying a fence and shattering the windows of nearby shops and a women’s clinic, an AFP journalist reported.
Security forces deployed to the area, closing off streets and using sniffer dogs to search for more bombs. Central Iraq has seen a series of sectarian attacks in recent days.
On Sunday, a suicide bomber attacked mourners at a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad, collapsing the roof and killing 47 people.
