[An Nahar] A series of boom-mobiles hit Storied Baghdad...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
province on Thursday, killing at least 44 people, while 22 died in other attacks, including two suicide kabooms in northern Iraq, officials said.
The attacks come as Iraq witnesses its worst violence since 2008, when the country was just emerging from a brutal sectarian conflict.
The violence, which has included sectarian attacks, has raised fears of a relapse into the intense bloodshed that peaked in 2006-2007 and killed tens of thousands of people.
Eleven boom-mobiles went
kaboom!in eight areas in and around the Iraqi capital on Thursday, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 120, officials said.
More attacks, including two suicide kabooms, were carried out in northern Iraq.
One jacket wallah detonated a vehicle rigged with explosives in a residential area of Al-Muwaffaqiyah, a village east of djinn-infested Mosul that is mainly populated by members of the Shabak minority, killing 15 people and wounding 50.Another bomber, wearing police uniform, detonated an explosives belt in a cafe in the town of Tuz Khurmatu further south, killing four people and wounding 27.
Another bomb went
kaboom!near the house of a Shabak family in djinn-infested Mosul itself, killing a child and wounding three people, while gunnies killed one policeman and maimed a second in an attack in the city and killed another to its south.
The 30,000-strong Shabak community mostly live in a pocket of villages east of djinn-infested Mosul.
They speak a distinct language and traditionally practice a blend of Shiite Islam and local beliefs, which has made them a target for attack by gunnies who regard them as heretics.