Six Blasts Across Baghdad Kill At Least 17 -- Euronews/Reuters
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Six explosions hit neighbourhoods across Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens more in the most deadly attacks on the Iraqi capital in more than a month.
The attacks – a truck bomb in a market, a car bomb and roadside explosives – broke weeks of relative calm in Baghdad just as Iraq’s government, shared among Shi’ite, Sunni and Kurdish blocs, wrangles over a crisis that risks reigniting sectarian tensions.
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Update: Bomb attacks in Iraq kill 18, wound 53 -- USA Today/AP
My Comment: So much for the relative calm that Baghdad has been experiencing lately.