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Spate of bombings circle Baghdad
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Sunday 14 May 2006 8:22 AM GMT
An Iraqi walks near destroyed market stalls after the attack
Five roadside bombs and two car bombs have exploded one after the
other around Baghdad, killing at least 12 Iraqis and wounding 37.
The first two roadside blasts on Sunday were in separate areas of
Palestine Street, a main thoroughfare in eastern Baghdad.
Police said the first one hit a police patrol at 9am, wounding two
policemen and four bystanders.
The second exploded at 9:30am, missing a police patrol but hitting a
civilian bus, killing five people, including a woman and two
children, and wounding a police officer, police said.
Also at 9:30am, a police patrol hit a roadside bomb in Baghdad's
northern district of Adhamiyah killing three policemen and wounding
13 people, including 10 pedestrians and five policemen.
Police Lieutenant Taheyr Mahmoud said that about the same time, a
roadside bomb missed a police patrol in central Baghdad, but wounded
seven civilians.
At about 11am, a roadside bomb exploded in a vegetable market in
southeastern Baghdad, killing four civilians and wounding 16, police
said.
Moments later, two car bombs exploded near a US convoy on Baghdad's
airport road, sending plumes of black smoke into the air, they said.
No casualties were reported among the Americans as US forces closed
off the area, but the number of deaths overall made Sunday one of the
bloodiest days in Iraq for weeks.
Other attacks
In the northern city of Mosul, sources said there were clashes
between armed groups and Iraqi security forces fighting with US
troops on Sunday, killing one policeman and wounding three others.
An Iraqi policeman inspects a
destroyed police car in Kirkuk
In the oil rich city of Kirkuk, a bomb just after midnight wounded
eight policemen on patrol, four of them seriously. Two police
vehicles were destroyed.
Bombs also wrecked six small Shia Muslim shrines in a rural area
about 60km northeast of Baghdad, police said on Sunday, in what
appeared to be the latest acts of sectarian violence in Iraq.
No one was hurt in Saturday's shrine attacks around the small town of
Wajihiya.
Residents expressed anger and concern that fighters were trying to
create friction in their mixed Sunni and Shia community, typical of
the region.
Agencies
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