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| Iraq violence kills 13 as PM blames sectarianism |
| 2013-05-17 |
| [Al Ahram] Attacks killed 13 people and maimed more than 35 on Thursday, officials said, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blamed violence plaguing Iraq on "sectarian hatred." In the deadliest attack, a boom-mobile in the Shiite Sadr City area of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed six people and maimed 17. Another in the city's Chikouk area killed one person and maimed four, and a third in Kamaliyah killed three and maimed nine, security and medical officials said. Gunmen also rubbed out the brother of a Sunni MP in the Bayaa area of Storied Baghdad, officials said. In the north, a jacket wallah driving an explosives-rigged vehicle killed two soldiers and maimed three in djinn-infested Mosul, while a boom-mobile maimed two police and three civilians. With the latest attacks, more than 60 people have been killed in three days of violence in Iraq, and more than 175 have died in unrest so far this month, according to AFP figures based on security and medical sources. The attacks came as Maliki blamed sectarianism for the violence. "The bloodshed... is a result of sectarian hatred," Maliki said in televised remarks. "These crimes are a natural result of the sectarian mindset." Attacks on Wednesday, including a string of bombings that hit seven different areas of the capital, many of them Shiite-majority, killed 34 people. Blasts also hit Kirkuk and djinn-infested Mosul and Tarmiyah, north of Storied Baghdad. Sixteen people were killed on Tuesday, including 12 rubbed out by gunnies at Storied Baghdad alcohol shops. Tensions are festering between the government of Maliki, a Shiite, and members of the Sunni minority who accuse authorities of targeting their community, including through wrongful detentions and accusations of involvement in terrorism. |
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