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Eugene

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Sun Jul 12, 2015, 08:59 PM Jul 2015

Baghdad car bombs and suicide attacks kill 35 - sources

Source: Reuters

Car bombs and suicide attacks targeting mainly Shi'ite Muslim districts of Baghdad killed 35 people on Sunday, one of the heaviest recent tolls in the Iraqi capital, which has faced a wave of bombings by Islamic State militants.

The deadliest attack hit the northern Shaab neighborhood, where a car bomb followed by a suicide blast killed 19 people, security and medical sources said. The car exploded near a crowded market and, as police and bystanders gathered, an attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body.

In Bunouk district in the capital's northeast, a bomb in a car killed nine people, the sources said. Security forces were sweeping areas nearby, some with sniffer dogs, after receiving information about two further possible bombs, they said.

More than 100 people were wounded in the three explosions.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/12/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-bombs-idUSKCN0PM11020150712



World | Sun Jul 12, 2015 6:05pm EDT
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Baghdad car bombs and suicide attacks kill 35 - sources (Original Post) Eugene Jul 2015 OP
It's like the good old days of ten years ago. TwilightGardener Jul 2015 #1
Religion kills seveneyes Jul 2015 #2

TwilightGardener

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1. It's like the good old days of ten years ago.
Sun Jul 12, 2015, 09:08 PM
Jul 2015

I have to doubt ISIS would make a serious push for Baghdad, but they can sure unleash chaos and weaken the Iraqi government.

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