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| Bombings and shootings kill 15 in Iraq |
| 2013-12-15 |
| [Al Ahram] Attacks in Iraq, including two bombings in a market and a blast targeting people who give food and water to Shia pilgrims, killed 15 people on Saturday, officials said. Violence has reached a level this year not seen since 2008, when Iraq was just emerging from a period of brutal sectarian killings, raising fears that the country is falling back into all-out conflict. In the deadliest attack, two bombs went kaboom!in a market in Nahrawan, near Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , killing at least five people and wounding at least 13, while a bomb in a restaurant in Husseiniyah, also close to the capital, killed two people and maimed six. In southern Storied Baghdad, a boom-mobile targeted people who give food and water to Shia pilgrims walking to the holy city of Karbala, killing at least four people and wounding at least 13. Other bombings and shootings in Iraq killed four people, among them a local anti-Al-Qaeda militia leader and a policeman, and maimed three police. |
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