Bombs hit cities across Iraq, at least 23 killed
- 11 years ago
Devestation in the Iraqi city of Tuz Khurmato, where four bombs targeting police patrols killed five people and wounded 67.
It was the deadliest attack in a series of bombings across Iraq on Monday that killed at least 23 people and injured more than 200 others.
The carnage comes before Iraqis vote in pivotal provincial elections on Saturday.
In Baghdad's Karrada district, emergency workers douse the flames of a car bomb near a court building that killed three civilians and wounded 15 others.
And in the captal city's Kamaliya district, four people were killed and 17 wounded when another car bomb exploded.
To the north in the city of Kirkuk, emergency workers rush to the scene of a fourth deadly car bombing that killed two and injured ten others, in an attack targeting a convoy carrying the head of Kirkuk University, Burhan Khursheid.
Kursheid escaped the attack unharmed.
No one claimed responsibility for Monday's bombings.
But al Qaeda's
It was the deadliest attack in a series of bombings across Iraq on Monday that killed at least 23 people and injured more than 200 others.
The carnage comes before Iraqis vote in pivotal provincial elections on Saturday.
In Baghdad's Karrada district, emergency workers douse the flames of a car bomb near a court building that killed three civilians and wounded 15 others.
And in the captal city's Kamaliya district, four people were killed and 17 wounded when another car bomb exploded.
To the north in the city of Kirkuk, emergency workers rush to the scene of a fourth deadly car bombing that killed two and injured ten others, in an attack targeting a convoy carrying the head of Kirkuk University, Burhan Khursheid.
Kursheid escaped the attack unharmed.
No one claimed responsibility for Monday's bombings.
But al Qaeda's