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| Iraq |
| Baghdad Car Bombs Kill at Least 30 |
| 2014-08-07 |
| [AnNahar] Five kabooms, including four boom-mobileings, killed at least 30 people and maimed around 70 others Wednesday in several Baghdad districts, Iraqi police and medical sources said. In the deadliest strike, two near simultaneous blasts in the northeastern Shiite area of Sadr City killed at least 16 people and maimed 34, a police colonel told Agence La Belle France Presse. Medical sources confirmed the toll. Another boom-mobile near a market area in the Ur district, north of Sadr City, killed at least eight and maimed 21, the same sources said. In the eastern district of Baghdad al-Jadida, at least four were killed and 12 maimed, and further south in Zafaraniya, two people were killed and four maimed in a roadside kaboom blast. The Islamic State jihadist group seized large parts of Iraq's west and north in June, before stopping its offensive a few dozen kilometers from the Iraqi capital. But violence has continued to wreak havoc in Baghdad, mostly in Shiite neighborhoods, with suicide kabooms, boom-mobiles and improvised bombs targeting security forces as well as civilians. |
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