23 killed, 74 Wounded In Violent Attacks In Iraq ~ THE 5TH ESTATE ASIA

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23 killed, 74 Wounded In Violent Attacks In Iraq

Thursday, November 21, 2013

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XINHUA
11/18/2013

BAGHDAD, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) --

At least 23 people were killed and 74 others wounded in violent attacks in Iraq on Sunday, including a wave of bomb attacks in Baghdad, police said.

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A car bomb exploded Sunday evening in Husseiniya area of northeastern Baghdad, killing four people and wounding 11 others, a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Two people were killed and six others injured when a car bomb went off in Dora area of southern Baghdad, while two people were killed and nine others wounded in another car bomb attack in Karrada area of central Baghdad, the source said.

Earlier at sunset Sunday, at least six people were killed and 27 wounded in three bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital city, a police source said.

A car bomb detonated in al-Ghadeer district in eastern Baghdad killed two people and wounded nine others, the source told Xinhua. Meanwhile, another car bomb went off at a commercial street in Sadr City district in eastern Baghdad, killing one people and wounding 11 others, the source said.

In addition, a roadside bomb ripped through Baghdad's southwestern suburb of Radhwaniyah and killed three people and wounded seven others, the source added.

Also on Sunday, nine people were killed and 21 others wounded in shootings and bombings, including two suicide attacks, in northern and central Iraq, police said.

The deadliest attack occurred in northern Iraq when two suicide bomb attacks and 12 roadside bombs struck the city of Tuz-Khurmato, some 200 km north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, leaving five people killed and up to 15 wounded, a local police source told Xinhua.

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The attacks took place before noon, when one of the suicide bombers rammed his explosive-laden car into an army checkpoint and blew it up, while the other detonated his explosive vest at a marketplace in the city, the source said.

Coordinately, 12 roadside bombs detonated in different places across the city, and most of the blasts targeted crowded civilian areas, the source added.

Later in the day, the source said that investigations found that some of the roadside bombs were sound bombs.

The ethnically mixed city of Tuz-Khurmato is part of the disputed area claimed by the Kurds, the Arabs and the Turkomans. The Kurds want to incorporate the area on the edge of the Kurdistan region into their territory.

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Meanwhile, a roadside bomb went off near an Iraqi army patrol in Tarmiyah area, some 40 km north of Baghdad, killing a soldier and wounding another and two passersby, a police source told Xinhua.

In addition, gunmen carried out a pre-dawn attack on the house of a leader of a government-backed Sahwa paramilitary group in the town of Madain, some 30 km south of Baghdad, sparking a clash with the guards of the house that left the leader's brother killed and two of the attackers dead, the source said.

Three of the attackers were also wounded by the clash and were captured by the security forces, the source added.

The Sahwa militia, also known as the Awakening Council or the Sons of Iraq, consists of armed groups, including some former anti- U.S. Sunni insurgent groups, who turned their rifles against the al-Qaida network after its leaders became dismayed by al-Qaida's brutality and religious zealotry in the country.

Iraq is witnessing its worst eruption of violence in recent years. According to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, almost 7, 000 Iraqis were killed and over 16,000 others injured from January to October this year.

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