Bombings in Baghdad: 82 dead

Iraq might have experienced the bloodiest days of the recent months. 82 people lost their lives in 3 different attacks in just one day. The biggest attack in the country was realized in a Shiite district in the northwest of Baghdad.

Children were also wounded in the attack.

In the district of Hürriyet, 63 people lost their life from an explosion from a bomb loaded vehicle in park in a crowded market place. 63 people have lost their life and 75 people were wounded. Nobody took responsibility for the attack but the US army has indicated that the attack was carried out aimed with the aim of inciting the Sunni-Shiite clash by a Shiite group.

It has been recorded that this was the bloodiest attack in Bagdad in recent months. A salesman, who witnessed the attack, explained that the vehicle, which has exploded, has been parked next to a 2 floor building where the apartments are on the top and the shops are down below. The eye witness said that some buildings burned in the explosion.

The Iraqi police have indicated that 4 children and 5 women were among the people who died in the attack carried out in the district of Hürriyet.
The Iraqi government has announced that the bombing attack will not affect their resolution. In the written statement made by the Prime Minister Nuri el Maliki’s cabinet, it was stated that “the attack has the aim of boosting the morale of extremist groups which have fallen flat in Bagdad, Basra and Mosul”.
The government’s statement added “this event won’t affect our will and determination aimed at maintaining the success in the security area and at defeating the terrorists. It will increase the will to protect our province from terrorists, killers and illicit facts.
In a joint statement, the US Embassy and US army in Iraq also condemned the attack which they said was “barbarous” and have made the commitment to help the Iraqi security forces bring those behind this attack to justice. Steve Stover, a US military spokesman lieutenant-colonel, has said that he has intelligence concerning the fact that “there is a Shiite group under the leadership of one person called Haydar Mehdi Hadum El Favadi”.

MANY EXPLOSIONS IN BAGDHAD
It has been declared that at least 12 people died in the two different attacks organized again in Bagdad. The Iraqi police have noted that 9 people have been wounded in the attacks organized with bomb loaded vehicles in the districts of Kazımiye and Sadr.
The police sources have declared that the bomb planted in the road in the district of El Ghadir in the east of Bagdad has exploded and that 4 people have been wounded, 3 of them being policemen.
In the meantime, the police authorities have indicated that a bomb-loaded vehicle has been blown up with a remote control in Bakuma which is a city center, that 2 policemen died in the attack and that 16 people were wounded.
In the attacks carried out in other areas of the country, 4 more people have lost their life.
On the other hand, Ban Ki-mun, the Secretary General of the UN, condemned the bombings which took place in Bagdad. He “fiercely” condemned the attack. In the statement made by the UN spokesmanship, it has been announced that the Secretary General Ban-Kimun has condemned fiercely the terrorist attack ending up with the death of 51 people and the injury of many people, and he sent his condolences to the families of the deceased.

(ntvmsnbc.com, June 18th 2008)