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At least 73 killed in bombings targeting Shi'ites in Iraq
[8:37] 12/Jan/06
Erbil Jan. 6 (PNA) - Police sources said the Iraqi medical sources said a series of bomb blasts targeting predominantly Shia areas in Iraq on Thursday killed at least 73 and wounding dozens of others, raising fears of escalating sectarian violence.
The carpet-Asadi Chairman of the Committee the security in Nasiriyah in southern Iraq, said the biggest attack occurred near a police checkpoint west of Nasiriyah when a suicide bomber targeted Shi'ite pilgrims, killing 44 people and wounded 81.
Erupted on 19 December, the worst political crisis since when has sought Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for the arrest of Tariq al-Hashimi's Sunni vice president on charges of forming death squads and has asked parliament to isolate Saleh al-Mutlaq's Sunni vice prime minister a day after the departure of the last U.S. troops from Iraq. The bombings on December 22 targeted areas of the majority population of Shiites in Baghdad killed 72 people.
The director of the main hospital in Nasiriyah, the death toll in a bombing on Thursday, 44 people while the total number of people 88.
And showed photographs of the scene, relatives of the victims hugged the bodies of young men lying on the ground and was stained with blood while the belongings were strewn around the pilgrims.
It is expected that many of the hundreds of thousands of Shiite city of Karbala in southern Iraq before the anniversary of Hussein for forty next week.
Earlier on Thursday, sources said police and medical sources said at least ten people were killed and 37 others in the neighborhood of Sadr City in northeast Baghdad when a roadside bomb had been planted in a motorcycle parked and the other planted on the side of a road in the same neighborhood.
Police said they had found and defused two other bombs Mfolhma.
A police officer at the scene, "there was a group of day laborers stand in waiting for the chance to work. And stopped the people of his motorcycle small nearby. A few minutes later exploded, killing some and wounding others, and burning some cars."
A Reuters reporter that the blood stains scattered all over the place, which exploded by a motorcycle and that the blast caused a gap in the paved road and scattered construction tools and shoes.
And showed a video of Reuters Television from a Sadr City hospital emergency room was packed with wounded and their relatives. The man sat on the ground, embracing his brother was engaged in tears on the sister who was killed in the bombings.
The sources said the other two explosions occurred in the Kadhimiya district of northwest Baghdad, which killed at least 15 and wounding 32 others.
Said Ahmed El Maati, a policeman in Kadhimiya, told Reuters, "People were running to escape the explosions and the others running towards the explosion (to search for loved ones). Became the scene such as a play .. people crying and people screaming and people fall down."
Iraq is still suffering deadly attacks launched by Sunni insurgents and Shi'ite militias after nearly nine years of the U.S. invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein.
Sadr City is a stronghold of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose Mahdi Army militia fought against its U.S. and Iraqi forces days before it becomes far from the main allies of the owners.
Figures of the Ministry of Health, the number of victims in the neighborhood of Sadr City, was 13 dead and 32 injured in Kadhimiya 16 dead and 36 wounded.
Qasim al-Moussawi, spokesman for the Baghdad Operations Center was "too early to point the finger at a certain point even clarify some things are complementary to the investigations."
"We are in the arena of battle with the terrorists with takfiris with the enemies of the political process.. We do not consider it a surprise to us or something strange."
Moussawi said the number of wounded in the offensive 33 in Sadr City, while 29 wounded in the offensive Kadhimiya, adding that he did not have specific numbers of deaths.
Many complain of the year of the marginalized in the political process since the overthrow of Saddam and the Shiite majority took power.
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