Another Day of Carnage in Iraq
Iraqi security sources said gunmen in two cars targeted a row of stores in Baghdad’s northern neighborhood of Waziriyah on Saturday, killing nine people and wounding four others.
In the northern city of Mosul, a bomb explosion at an outdoor market claimed the lives of two shoppers and left 15 others wounded Saturday afternoon.
In another attack, two people were killed and seven others wounded in a roadside bomb blast in the village of Mishahda, just north of Baghdad.
Meanwhile, gunmen killed the son of a local leader in an anti-al-Qaeda group, known as the Sahwa, and wounded his friend in the western city of Ramadi in Anbar Province.
Medical and security officials confirmed the casualties.
The latest fatalities bring the number of people killed in Iraq so far this month to over 80.
Violence across the country has claimed more than 6,200 lives since the beginning of 2013.
Iraq says al-Qaeda-linked militants have launched an open war in the country and they want to push the country into chaos.
On October 23, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki also warned that Iraq is facing a “war of genocide.”
He blamed al-Qaeda for killing thousands of people in Iraq, saying that it is “destroying the houses of citizens and killing them, and blowing up government departments.”
Source: Press TV
