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Last Post 05/12/2016 2:32 PM by  nikos
Flashpoints-Current Items for Urgent Prayers: Dozens killed in Baghdad car bombings
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05/12/2016 2:32 PM
    At least 93 people have been killed in three car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
    The deadliest killed 64 people and wounded 87 in a market in the mainly Shia Muslim area of Sadr City.
    Later two suicide bombers targeted police checkpoints in the northern district of Kadhimiya and in Jamia, in the west, leaving 29 dead.
    The so-called Islamic State (IS) group claimed the attacks - the worst day of violence in Baghdad so far this year.
    The Sunni jihadist group, which controls large swathes of northern and western Iraq, has frequently targeted Shia, whom it considers apostates.

    The target of Wednesday's first bombing was the busy market in Sadr City.
    Police and witnesses said the explosives were hidden under fruit and vegetables loaded on a pick-up trick.
    Sadr City, a huge, largely Shia suburb, has frequently been the target of bomb attacks by Sunni extremists but this is one of the worst, says the BBC's Jim Muir in Iraq.
    IS said one of its suicide bombers had carried out the attack, and that it was aimed at Shia militiamen, an account that seems to be at odds with reports from the scene, our correspondent adds.
    Hours later, a suicide car bomb exploded outside a police checkpoint in Kadhimiya, a mostly Shia district that is the location of an important shrine, officials said.

    read more at: http://www.bbc.com/news/w...middle-east-36265245
    Tags: IS, Iraq, Baghdad, Sunni, Shia
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