Scores Killed In Shiite Area Bombings In Baghdad
Shaveta Bansal - All Headline News Staff Writer Baghdad, Iraq (AHN) -A series of rocket attacks followed by vehicle bombs killed more than 60 people and wounded at least 100 others in a predominantly Shi'ite neighborhood in Baghdad Sunday evening, according to ministry officials. The attack comes despite an additional 12,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops sent to quell violence in the region. A statement from office of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri-al-Maliki said the attacks on the Zafraniyah district in southern Baghdad started with a number of Katyusha rockets falling on a building, followed by a car bomb and more rockets on a post office, a motorcycle bomb near a public library and mortar rounds near an Armenian church. A statement put the death toll at 47 but head of a municipal council, Mohammed al-Rubaie said that some 62 people were killed in the deadly attacks. According to the police, the rockets were apparently fired from Dora, one of the mostly occupied districts targeted by U.S. troops in a security crackdown. Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammed Askari in a statement said the latest violence was a desperate attempt by terrorists who have realized that the country's "security plan is succeeding." "So they have begun targeting innocent people anywhere and randomly," he said. The attack involving car bombs and a rocket barrage was similar to a July 27 attack on another mostly Shiite district, Karradah, which killed |
