Iraq

Bombings kill six in Iraqi capital

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Six people have been killed and several others wounded in recent bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

On Thursday, a car bomb blast hit the northeastern part of Baghdad, leaving four people dead and a dozen others wounded.

Iraqi Interior Ministry sources said another car bomb attack at a thoroughfare in Baghdad’s southern district of Karrada killed two people and injured eight others.

Two roadside bombings at the districts of Saidiyah and Baladiyat in southern and eastern Baghdad also wounded nearly ten people, the sources added.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says militant groups and the remnants of the former Ba’athist regime are to blame for the recent wave of violence in the country.

On Wednesday, a bomb attack, which was carried out in a northwestern neighborhood of Baghdad, killed 16 people and injured more than 40 others.

Two bomb blasts in a commercial area in western Baghdad also killed nine people and wounded 15 others on the same day. An Iraqi army brigadier general was also shot dead at his home in the city of Abu Ghraib.

On May 2, the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said April had been the deadliest month in Iraq since 2008 as terrorist acts killed over 700 people and injured more than 1, 630 others across the country.

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