BOMBINGS KILL AT LEAST 54 IN IRAQ
BAGHDAD, July 29, 2013 (AFP) - Attacks including car bombs mainly targeting Shiitemajority areas of Iraq killed at least 54 people on Monday, officials said, taking the July death toll to more than 790.
More than 3,000 people have been killed in violence since the beginning of the year, according to AFP figures based on security and medical sources -- a surge in unrest that the Iraqi government has so far failed to stem.
On Monday, 11 car bombs hit nine different areas of Baghdad, seven of them Shiite-majority, while
More than 3,000 people have been killed in violence since the beginning of the year, according to AFP figures based on security and medical sources
another exploded in Mahmudiyah to the south of the capital.
Two more car bombs exploded in Kut, while two hit Samawa and another detonated in Basra, all south of Baghdad.
A roadside bomb also killed five policemen, including a lieutenant colonel, north of Tikrit, while a magnetic "sticky bomb" killed a police captain in Anbar province.
The attacks wounded a total of at least 232 people.
One of the Baghdad bombings struck near a place where day labourers wait for work in the overwhelmingly Shiite area of Sadr City, killing five people and wounding 17.