Bombings kill at least 41 in Iraq

09/07/2009| IslamWeb

A series of bombings in Baghdad and a northern Iraqi town on Thursday killed at least 41 people and wounded more than 80, police said. Two successive suicide attacks in the town of Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, killed 34 and wounded 60.

One suicide bomber detonated an explosives vest in the town. A second similar attack occurred as people gathered to respond to the first blast, said a police official.

In Baghdad, seven people were killed and 20 were wounded by two bomb blasts in a market in Sadr City.

Police said both bombs had been placed among rubbish piles in the popular market area.

 

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Iraqi police stand at the site of a roadside bomb attack near a market in the Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 9, 2009.

Reuters