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Multiple attacks kill at least 66 across Iraq
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Car bombs ripped through Shiite pilgrims near Baghdad while militants attacked a city council headquarters and a police station in Iraq-wide violence that killed at least 66 people yesterday, officials said.
The killing of the pilgrims underscored the danger of sectarian violence in Iraq, while the attacks on the city council and police station in Salaheddin province showed the impunity with which militants can strike even targets that should be highly secure.
Violence in Iraq has reached a level not seen since 2008, when the country was emerging from a period of brutal sectarian killings, and has raised fears it is slipping back into all-out conflict.
In the Rashid area south of Baghdad, two car bombs targeted Shiite pilgrims, killing at least 22 people and wounding at least 52, security and medical officials said.
Hundreds of thousands of people, many of them on foot, make pilgrimages to the holy city of Karbala during the 40 days after the annual commemoration marking the death of the Prophet Mohammed’s grandson, Hussein.
The 40th day, known as Arbaeen, falls on December 23 this year.
Sunni militants including those linked to al-Qaida frequently target members of Iraq’s Shiite majority, whom they consider to be apostates.
In the city of Tikrit, militants detonated a car bomb near the city council headquarters and then occupied the building, with employees still inside.
Iraqi security forces surrounded the building, and then carried out an assault that Counter-Terrorism Service spokesman Sabah Noori said freed 40 people who were held inside.
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