Violence claims more than 1,000 since April in Iraq
- 11 years ago
Explosions rip through Baghdad Thursday killing more than a dozen people and deepening fears of a return sectarian violence.
Two months of bombings in Iraq have killed more than a thousand people -- but officials insist the country is not falling back into the bloodletting of a few years ago, when 3,000 or more were killed every month.
A car bomb in the mainly Sunni district of north Baghdad, killed at least four people and wounded a dozen others -- just one of several attacks on the capital city.
(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) UNIDENTIFIED RESIDENT OF DAMAGED HOUSE SAYING:
"We tried to get out of the house, but we could not because two burnt out cars were blocking the way and people were lying dead on the street. The house was damaged and pieces of wreckage of the car bomb flew into the house"
Fanned by the war in Syria, government officials are blaming the surge in attacks on Iraqi Sunni Muslim militants, some allied to Syria's Islamist rebels.
Two months of bombings in Iraq have killed more than a thousand people -- but officials insist the country is not falling back into the bloodletting of a few years ago, when 3,000 or more were killed every month.
A car bomb in the mainly Sunni district of north Baghdad, killed at least four people and wounded a dozen others -- just one of several attacks on the capital city.
(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) UNIDENTIFIED RESIDENT OF DAMAGED HOUSE SAYING:
"We tried to get out of the house, but we could not because two burnt out cars were blocking the way and people were lying dead on the street. The house was damaged and pieces of wreckage of the car bomb flew into the house"
Fanned by the war in Syria, government officials are blaming the surge in attacks on Iraqi Sunni Muslim militants, some allied to Syria's Islamist rebels.