At least 47 killed as car bombs rock Baghdad
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Twelve car bombs, mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad province, killed at least 47 people and wounded more than 140 yesterday, security and medical officials said.
The blasts are the latest in a string of sectarian attacks in central Iraq that have raised the specter of a return to the all-out Sunni-Shiite conflict that peaked in 2006-2007 and killed tens of thousands of people.
The bombs hit nine different areas, six of them Shiite-majority, one confessionally mixed and two Sunni-majority.
The deadliest attacks hit Kadhimiyah, a mainly Shiite area of north Baghdad, where two car bombs killed at least nine people and wounded at least 19.
In Baghdad Jadida, a bomb exploded in a car park, burning vehicles, destroying a fence and shattering the windows of nearby shops and a women’s clinic.
Security forces deployed to the area, closing off streets and using sniffer dogs to search for more bombs.
Central Iraq has seen a series of sectarian attacks in recent days.
On Sunday, a suicide bomber attacked mourners at a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad, collapsing the roof and killing 47 people.
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