39 killed in explosions across Baghdad
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At least 11 explosions tore through Shiite Muslim areas in and around the Iraqi capital yesterday, killing at least 39 people at crowded market places, commercial districts and car repair shops, officials said.
The attacks are part of a wave of violence that has washed across Iraq since a deadly security crackdown on a Sunni protest camp in April. Since then, the bloodshed has reached heights unseen since the country teetered on the brink of civil war in 2006 and 2007.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for yesterday’s attacks, but insurgent groups target civilians in cafes and public areas of Shiite neighborhoods in a bid to erode confidence in the Shiite-led government and stir up Iraq’s simmering sectarian tensions.
The deadliest attack happened in the Shiite neighborhood of Baiyaa, where a car bomb exploded inside an auto shop, killing seven people and wounding 14 others, police said.
Another car bomb in a commercial street in Baghdad killed four more people, while in the eastern Ghadeer district another car bomb near a government tax office killed six people and wounded 22, authorities said.
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