33 killed, dozens injured in attacks in Iraq
At least 33 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in a fresh wave of bombings which targeted busy commercial streets in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad and the northern city of Baquba.
Nearly 100 people were wounded in the violence which hit the Iraqi cities around noon on Sunday.
In Baquba, some 65 kilometers (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, two people were killed in a car bomb blast.
A car bomb explosion killed seven people in the district of Bayaa in Baghdad.
Five people lost their lives after a car bomb went off in a busy square in central Baghdad.
Other victims were killed in similar attacks in the districts of Amel, Ghadir, Sadr City, Hussainiya and Radhwaniya in Baghdad.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but al-Qaeda-linked militants often carry out the acts of terror.
Earlier this month, the country’s ministries of health and defense said that 948 people, including 852 civilians, 53 police officers and 43 soldiers, were killed in violent attacks across the Arab country in November.
Another 1,349 people were also injured in the attacks.
The figures indicate that November was one of the deadliest months of 2013, with civilians accounting for about 90 percent of the fatalities.
On October 23, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki warned that Iraq is facing a “war of genocide.”
He blamed the al-Qaeda militant group for killing thousands of people in Iraq, saying that the group is “destroying the houses of citizens and killing them, and blowing up government departments.”
Data released by Iraq’s ministries of Health, Interior and Defense on November 1 showed that violence in the Arab country killed 964 people and injured 1,600 others in October alone.
