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| At Least 30 Dead, 67 Hurt as Blasts Rock Baghdad, Kirkuk |
| 2014-12-05 |
[AnNahar] Car bombs went kaboom!Thursday on two busy streets of a Shiite neighbourhood of Baghdad, killing at least 15 people and wounding 47, police and medical sources said. The blasts went off at around 6:30 pm (1530 GMT) near markets in two different parts of the sprawling northern district of Sadr City that are usually bustling with people on Thursday evenings. At least nine people were killed and 25 maimed in one blast, while at least six died and 22 were hurt in the other, a police colonel and a hospital source said. The capital is rocked by several blasts a week, including suicide kabooms, most of which have lately been claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group. Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... a boom-mobile destroyed a crowded street in a mainly Kurdish neighborhood of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... killing at least 15 people, officials said. "It's a busy street with restaurants and shops, there is great destruction," a police colonel said. The kaboom rocked the predominantly Kurdish northern neighborhood of Shorjah. Both he and the head of the health directorate for Kirkuk province, Sabah Mohammed Amin, said the blast killed at least 15 people and maimed 20. |
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