At least 33 killed in Iraq attacks

23.02.2012 [14:19]
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Baku, February 23 (AZERTAC). A wave of bombings and shootings across Iraq killed at least 33 people and wounded dozens more on Thursday, the deadliest day in mhore than a month, security officials said.

Most of the violence was centred on Baghdad, where attacks killed 22 people, an interior ministry official said.

A car bomb in the Shiite shrine district of Kadhmiyah in north Baghdad killed six people and wounded 15, the official said.

In Adhamiyah, across the Tigris river, gunmen attacked a police checkpoint, killing six people and wounded three.

A car bomb exploded in the Karrada district of central Baghdad near a police checkpoint, killing one person and wounding 11, while another car bomb exploded in the same area about 30 minutes later, killing another person and wounding six.

And two roadside bombs and an attack by unknown gunmen against a police checkpoint killed two people and wounded nine in Umm al-Mualaf in southwest Baghdad.

In Dura in south Baghdad, a roadside bomb killed two people and wounded 10.

Two roadside bombs exploded near a restaurant in Abu Shir, also in south Baghdad, killing two people and wounding 10.

At least 33 killed in Iraq attacks

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