Bombings across Iraq kill at least 21 people - police
- 11 years ago
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STORY: Two car bombs exploded in the southern Iraqi province of Nassiriya on Sunday wounding 11 people.
They were amongst a series of car and roadside bombs in Baghdad and predominantly Shi'ite provinces of Iraq that killed at total of at least 21 people police sources said.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, which appeared to have been coordinated, but Sunni Islamist insurgents, including an al Qaeda affiliate, have been regaining momentum in recent months.
More than two years of civil war in neighboring Syria have aggravated deep-rooted sectarian divisions in Iraq, fraying an uneasy government coalition of Shi'ite, Sunni and ethnic Kurdish factions.
The deadliest attacks were in the city of Hilla, where two parked car bombs exploded simultaneously near a busy market and a third blew up near a vehicle repair workshop killing nine people in total, police said.
Another explosion took place in
STORY: Two car bombs exploded in the southern Iraqi province of Nassiriya on Sunday wounding 11 people.
They were amongst a series of car and roadside bombs in Baghdad and predominantly Shi'ite provinces of Iraq that killed at total of at least 21 people police sources said.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, which appeared to have been coordinated, but Sunni Islamist insurgents, including an al Qaeda affiliate, have been regaining momentum in recent months.
More than two years of civil war in neighboring Syria have aggravated deep-rooted sectarian divisions in Iraq, fraying an uneasy government coalition of Shi'ite, Sunni and ethnic Kurdish factions.
The deadliest attacks were in the city of Hilla, where two parked car bombs exploded simultaneously near a busy market and a third blew up near a vehicle repair workshop killing nine people in total, police said.
Another explosion took place in