15 killed, 80 wounded in bombs in Iraq

A woman reacts near the site of a car bomb attack in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, November 14, 2012. (Reuters)

BAGHDAD, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- A total of 15 people were killed and more than 80 others wounded Wednesday in a series of car bomb attacks across Iraq, on the eve of Muslim festival marking the Islamic lunar new year, the police said.

The deadliest attack occurred in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, when four car bombs killed a total of nine people and wounded some 32 others, a provincial police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

One of the attacks reportedly went off in the central of Kirkuk, some 250 km north of Baghdad, and the second ripped through the city of Hawija, some 50 km southwest of Kirkuk, the source said.

A third car bomb detonated near the office of a Kurkish party in a village, just south of Kirkuk, while a fourth exploded at a parking lot in northwestern Kirkuk, the source added.

Another car bomb attacked at a crowded marketplace near the city of Hilla, some 100 km south of Baghdad, killing up to six people and wounding some 37 others, an interior ministry source anonymously told Xinhua.

Earlier, the source put the toll at four killed and nine injured by the blast.

In Baghdad, a car bomb detonated near the convoy of a senior police officer at al-Firdos Square in central city, wounding two of his bodyguards and five civilians, the ministry source said.

One more car bomb exploded at a marketplace in the town of Baladruz, east of the provincial capital city of Diyala, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, wounding seven civilians, a provincial police source told Xinhua.

Violence and sporadic high-profile bomb attacks are still common in the Iraqi cities despite the dramatic decrease in violence since its peak in 2006 and 2007, when the country was engulfed in sectarian killings.

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2012-11-14 18:22:02
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- At least a civilian was killed on Monday and 10 others wounded in a car bomb attack in the Iraqi city of Hilla, the capital of Babil province, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.

The blast took place around noon when a booby-trapped car detonated at Nadir district in central Hilla, some 100 km south of Baghdad, the source said on condition of anonymity.

Iraqi security forces sealed off the scene, while ambulances evacuated the victims to the city hospitals, the source said.

Earlier in the day, another car bomb ripped through the residential compound of al-Ghadier near the city of Mosul, the capital of Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, killing nine people and wounding 20 others.

Mosul's attack targeted the Iraqi minority of Shabak who are an ethnic and Shi'ite group living in villages around in Nineveh province, particularly, around the city of Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad.

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