Baghdad, September 04: At least thirteen people have been killed and more than one hundred fifty others injured following a series of bomb attacks across war-torn Iraq on Thursday.
A bomb explosion at a shrine in the town of Mussayab, 55 kilometers (34 miles) south of Baghdad in Babil province, claimed the lives of three worshippers and injured 51 others, police said.
Two other people were also killed in a booby trap bomb blast south of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The incident which took place near another Shia tomb wounded ten other people.
In Aun, a small community near the holy city of Kerbala, 110 kilometers south of Baghdad, eight people were hurt when a bomb went off at a market.
In Baghdad’s neighborhood of Azamiya a bomb targeting Sahwa militia men wounded four of them and four civilians. A car bomb at Dora on the southern edge of the city injured a Sahwa officer and four of his body guards.
Five civilians were hurt in a bombing at Kasra in northern Baghdad.
Also a car bomb explosion outside a restaurant left at least two people dead and fifty seven others wounded in Baquba, the capital of Iraq’s volatile Diyala province.
—–Agencies