The “Lions“ kill dozens in Iraq
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Coordinated Baghdad blasts kill dozens
Insurgent bombers have killed at least 47 people and injured 148 more in a coordinated series of blasts which demolished two buildings in a commercial district of Baghdad yesterday, a defence official says.
"One building and one house collapsed completely," the official said.
"Two more buildings were seriously damaged."
At least five explosions have ripped through the Zafaraniyah district of south-east Baghdad.
A witness and a security official say the attack on the Al Qubyasi market, in a mixed area inhabited by Shiites, Sunni and Christians, was done in a way designed to maximise casualties.
An Interior Ministry official says the carnage began when a Katyusha rocket demolished a four-storey building containing residences and shops.
Edit: This is the same type used by Hezbollah and supplied by Iran
Dual attack
Five minutes later, as bystanders rushed to drag the dead and wounded from the rubble, a car bomb detonated about 100 metres away, shattering shop fronts and scattering wounded people across the street.
A medical official at the scene says bodies are trapped in the remains of the building.
"There are dozens of bodies in the street," he said.
"The building just collapsed. It was four storeys, with homes and shops.
"Civil defence personnel are trying to get bodies out of the building.
"The shops underneath are destroyed."
Less than an hour later, another bomb attack brought down a second building nearby and again, after local people gathered at the site a suicide bomber on a motorbike ploughed into the crowd and blew himself up.
Meanwhile, a fifth bomb attack targeted a police patrol on its way to the scene, injuring three officers.
Baghdad is in the grip of a dirty war between rival sectarian gangs and insurgents targeting US-led coalition forces and the national unity Government led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
Around 50 people are killed every day, according to figures from the city morgue.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1713994.htm
Coordinated Baghdad blasts kill dozens
Insurgent bombers have killed at least 47 people and injured 148 more in a coordinated series of blasts which demolished two buildings in a commercial district of Baghdad yesterday, a defence official says.
"One building and one house collapsed completely," the official said.
"Two more buildings were seriously damaged."
At least five explosions have ripped through the Zafaraniyah district of south-east Baghdad.
A witness and a security official say the attack on the Al Qubyasi market, in a mixed area inhabited by Shiites, Sunni and Christians, was done in a way designed to maximise casualties.
An Interior Ministry official says the carnage began when a Katyusha rocket demolished a four-storey building containing residences and shops.
Edit: This is the same type used by Hezbollah and supplied by Iran
Dual attack
Five minutes later, as bystanders rushed to drag the dead and wounded from the rubble, a car bomb detonated about 100 metres away, shattering shop fronts and scattering wounded people across the street.
A medical official at the scene says bodies are trapped in the remains of the building.
"There are dozens of bodies in the street," he said.
"The building just collapsed. It was four storeys, with homes and shops.
"Civil defence personnel are trying to get bodies out of the building.
"The shops underneath are destroyed."
Less than an hour later, another bomb attack brought down a second building nearby and again, after local people gathered at the site a suicide bomber on a motorbike ploughed into the crowd and blew himself up.
Meanwhile, a fifth bomb attack targeted a police patrol on its way to the scene, injuring three officers.
Baghdad is in the grip of a dirty war between rival sectarian gangs and insurgents targeting US-led coalition forces and the national unity Government led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
Around 50 people are killed every day, according to figures from the city morgue.
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