bombs killed
at least 30
people across
Iraq on Sunday
and wounded
nearly a
hundred, with
attackers
mainly
targeting busy
commercial
streets in the
capital, police sources said.
The deadliest attack took place in the
predominantly Shi'ite Muslim district of Bayaa in
Baghdad when a bomb in a parked vehicle
detonated near car workshops, killing seven and
wounding 14, the sources said.
Violence in Iraq is at the highest level in at least
five years and the capital has been targeted almost
daily. More than 8,000 have been killed this year,
the United Nations says.
Sunni insurgents, mostly with links to al Qaeda,
have claimed several large bombings in Iraq this
year. The last large set of bombings was on
November 21 north of the capital. Since then, there
has been a steady flow of smaller attacks.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for
Sunday's bombings but al Qaeda has increased its
grip on areas across the country since the
escalation of the crisis in neighboring Syria and the
withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011.
At least 94 people were wounded in Sunday's
attacks. In one, a car bomb exploded in a busy
square in central Baghdad, killing at least five
people and wounding 15, police said.
In Radhwaniya, a predominantly Sunni area in the
capital, a roadside bomb killed two people and
wounded eight, police said.
There were other attacks in Baghdad's mainly
Shi'ite districts of Amel, Ghadir, Sadr City and
Hussainiya.
In Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad,
a bomb in a parked car blew up inside a market
killing two people and wounding seven, police said.
Sent From David Aniemeka
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