Tuesday, December 05, 2006
30 killed in attacks in Baghdad
Security
Thirty people have been killed in attacks in Baghdad on Tuesday. Armed men killed 14 employees of a Shia religious foundation in the Iraqi capital, while three car bombs killed 16 people in a separate attack near a petrol station in a religiously mixed area. The employees of the Shia foundation were killed when their bus was ambushed, Salah Abdul Razzaq, a spokesman for the organisation said. Interior ministry sources said the attackers first set off a car bomb and then sprayed the bus with bullets on a highway in northern Baghdad.
In the attack on the petrol station, three car bombs detonated one after the other in southwest Baghdad. The explosions occurred at 9:45am in Biyaa, a mixed Sunni Arab and Shia section of the city. The patchwork of Sunni and Shia neighbourhoods in southwest Baghdad is a frequent site of clashes between rival armed gangs. The attack in the Biyaa area is the latest in a number of multiple car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, including the bloodiest bombing since the US invasion two weeks ago which killed more than 200 people.
In the attack on the petrol station, three car bombs detonated one after the other in southwest Baghdad. The explosions occurred at 9:45am in Biyaa, a mixed Sunni Arab and Shia section of the city. The patchwork of Sunni and Shia neighbourhoods in southwest Baghdad is a frequent site of clashes between rival armed gangs. The attack in the Biyaa area is the latest in a number of multiple car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, including the bloodiest bombing since the US invasion two weeks ago which killed more than 200 people.
