{"id":10097,"date":"2014-05-13T20:03:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T12:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=10097"},"modified":"2025-01-17T19:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T00:06:18","slug":"car-bomb-explosions-kill-28-people-in-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/13\/car-bomb-explosions-kill-28-people-in-baghdad\/","title":{"rendered":"Car bomb explosions kill 28 people in Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BAGHDAD — A wave of car bombings in mainly Shiite areas of Baghdad killed 28 people on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a surge in violence that has been the most serious challenge to the government’s efforts to achieve stability across Iraq.<\/p>\n

The attacks came as Iraqi Shiites were celebrating the birthday of Imam Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad and Shiite Islam’s most sacred martyr.<\/p>\n

In the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, a car bomb went off in the morning hours, killing four people and wounding six, police officials said. Another car bomb elsewhere in Sadr City exploded near a cluster of homes, killing two people and wounding seven.<\/p>\n

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Associated Press footage from one of the Sadr City attacks showed a thick cloud of smoke rising from the blast area where several cars were on fire.<\/p>\n

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A short while later, a car bomb exploded in a commercial street in Baghdad’s eastern district of Jamila, killing three people and wounding 10. Police said a fourth car bomb went off near a traffic police office in eastern Baghdad, killing four people, including a traffic policeman. Seven people were wounded in that attack.<\/p>\n

Haithem Kadhum, owner of a juice shop in Jamila who was wounded in the attack there, said he was in his store when he heard a big explosion.<\/p>\n

He was told the blast was in his home neighborhood of Sadr City so rushed to his car to go check on his family.<\/p>\n

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But as he was driving through Jamila, another explosion went off, this one near him. The flying shrapnel wounded him in the shoulder.<\/p>\n

“I was wounded in my right shoulder. I went out of the car and I saw dead and wounded people on the ground. Everybody was in panic,” said Kadhum, after receiving treatment in a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n

Also Tuesday, a car bomb exploded at a square in downtown Baghdad, killing two people and wounding eight, police said. Another car bomb went off in a commercial street in Baghdad’s Shiite eastern district of Ur, killing five people and wounding 11.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in Baghdad, a car bomb exploded near an out-door market in the eastern Shiite suburb of Maamil, killing three people and wounding 14.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon, a car bomb went off near a market in Baghdad’s southern Dora district, killing five people and wounding 12 others.<\/p>\n

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, which bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida-inspired Sunni militants who consider Shiites to be “infidels.”<\/p>\n

Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media.<\/p>\n

According to the United Nations, 8,868 people were killed in Iraq last year – the country’s highest death toll since the peak of sectarian bloodletting in 2007 and 2008.<\/p>\n

Associated Press writer Murtada Faraj contributed to this report from Baghdad.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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