BAGHDAD, Oct 10: Bombers triggered a series of at least seven blasts around the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, as police said they had found 110 bodies over two days in a city in the grip of a vicious sectarian war.
An explosion ripped through a crowd outside a baker’s shop in a Sunni district of the capital, killing at least 10 bystanders, while three more blasts accounted for two dead soldiers and three policemen.
Meanwhile, security officials said they had gathered the bodies of 60 murder victims from the city’s streets on Monday and 50 more on Tuesday, and the US military confirmed the deaths of two more of its own soldiers.
The killings come at a time when UN and Iraqi officials estimate that more than 100 people are being killed every day in the fighting.
Tuesday’s bloodiest bombing took place outside a baker’s shop in Dura, a mainly Sunni area of southwest Baghdad that has become a battlefield for the Sunni and Shia gangs involved in Baghdad’s deadly turf war.
Bakers are a common target for Sunni insurgents as the profession tends to be dominated by Shia workers and some religious extremists regard it as improper for men rather than women to make bread.
Ten people were killed in the blast and four more wounded. One policeman was killed and four more wounded when their patrol was hit by a booby-trap, also in Dura, where there is a major Iraqi and US security presence.
As night fell, a suicide car bomb killed two Iraqi soldiers in northern Baghdad and an improvised explosive device killed two police in the south.—AFP
