Middle East Today: Iraq --- At Least 57 Killed in Bombings on Monday
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 at 8:13 | Scott Lucas in EA Live, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran Iraq: Dozens Killed in Monday Bombings
In the latest deadly spike in violence in Iraq, at least 57 people have been killed and more than 140 wounded in a series of bombings in and around Baghdad.
More than 350 people have been slain so far this month, and more than 700 people were killed in April, the highest monthly toll in almost five years.
Several of the attacks targeted markets and shopping areas in predominantly Shia Muslim areas. Areas struck included Habibiya, near Sadr City in the east of the capital, an open-air market in the al-Maalif area, and the main commercial hub Sadoun Street in central Baghdad.
Deadly explosions were also reported in the largely Shia neighbourhoods of Sabi al-Boor, Bayaa, and Kazimiyah.
In other parts of the country, shootings in the disputed province of Kirkuk killed an anti-al-Qaeda militiaman and a private generator operator, while a police colonel was slain by a roadside bomb in the main northern city of Mosul.
http://m.aljazeera.com/se/201352715214869598Iraq
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