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| Car Bomb Kills 12 in Shiite Area of Baghdad, another Targets Iran Pilgrims |
| 2013-05-21 |
| [Naharnet] A boom-mobile near a market in a Shiite-majority area of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed 12 people and maimed at least 20 on Monday, a police officer and a medical official said. The bombing in the Shaab area of north Storied Baghdad brings the two-day corpse count from violence in Iraq to 63. The boom-mobileing came minutes after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed to overhaul the country's security strategy, amid a wave of violence that has killed 340 people so far in May. Later on Monday, another boom-mobile went kaboom!near a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims north of Storied Baghdad, killing eight people, police and a local official said. The bombing also maimed at least 15 people, the officials said. The pilgrims were on their way to a Shiite shrine in Samarra, which was bombed in February 2006, unleashing a wave of sectarian bloodletting in which tens of thousands of people died. Violence in Iraq has fallen from its peak in 2006 and 2007 but attacks are still common, with more than 200 people killed in each of the first five months of this year. |
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