Baghdad, January 23: At least ten people have been killed and 38 others injured in twin car bomb attacks in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, as the violence gets momentum in the volatile country.
The first bomb targeted a group of workers waiting for jobs early Tuesday morning while the second went off near a traffic intersection and outside a bakery half an hour later, both in the northeastern Sadr City area of Baghdad, an Iraqi interior ministry official said.
A total of ten people were killed and 38 more, including two women and a child, were injured in the assaults, he added.
Iraq has witnessed many bomb attacks since the beginning of 2012, particularly after the government issued an arrest warrant for the country’s Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi on charges of running a hit squad.
Earlier in mid-January, a heavy bomb attack in the southern Iraqi city of Basra claimed the lives of at least 50 Shia pilgrims and wounded nearly 100 others.
The attack occured when a crowd of pilgrims gathered on the outskirts of the city to commemorate the 40-day mourning period after the anniversary of the martyrdom of Hussein, Prophet Muhammad’s grandson and the third Shia Imam.
Militants still carry out attacks on a daily basis in Iraq in order to create instability across the country and weaken the government.
—Agencies