{"id":20862,"date":"2012-07-03T18:38:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T15:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=20862"},"modified":"2012-07-03T18:38:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T15:38:25","slug":"iraq-attacks-kill-36-wound-100-20862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/iraq-attacks-kill-36-wound-100-20862\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq attacks kill 36, wound 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A truck bomb has killed 25 people at a crowded market in central Iraq while attacks elsewhere claimed 11 lives, the latest victims of a spike in violence.<\/h1>\n

The unrest, the bloodiest of which was in predominantly Shi’ite areas, came ahead of commemoration ceremonies on Friday for the birth of a key figure in Shi’ite Islam, and left nearly 100 people wounded in the worst unrest to hit Iraq in three weeks.<\/p>\n

The morning blast struck a popular market in Diwaniyah, 160 kilometres south of Baghdad, killing 25 people and wounding 70, a police colonel said.<\/p>\n

A hospital official in the city confirmed receiving 25 dead.<\/p>\n

“This attack has the fingerprints of al-Qaeda,” provincial governor Salim Hussein Alwan told a news conference, adding authorities were investigating the explosion.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the attack, Diwaniyah officials imposed a curfew across the city of some 440,000 people.<\/p>\n

Women and children were among the victims of the attack that hit the main vegetable market of Diwaniyah, where 15 shops and stalls were destroyed, the officials added.<\/p>\n

The blast came just hours after near-simultaneous car bombs targeting Shi’ite pilgrims at Freyha, a village on the outskirts of the central shrine city of Karbala, killed four people.<\/p>\n

“There were four killed and 13 wounded by two car bombs at around 7am, east of Karbala,” provincial police spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed al-Hasnawi said.<\/p>\n

A medical official in Karbala put the toll at four dead and 33 wounded.<\/p>\n

Karbala is frequented by Shi’ite pilgrims as it is the site of shrines to Imam Hussein and his half-brother Abbas, both central figures to Shi’ite Islam.<\/p>\n

Friday’s ceremonies are to mark the birth of another figure, known as the 12th imam, and pilgrims visiting the city are frequent targets of Sunni insurgents.<\/p>\n

“A large number (of pilgrims) will travel to Karbala this week and radical groups such as al-Qaeda… may try to attack them in an attempt to inflict numerous casualties and enflame inter-communal tensions,” John Drake, an analyst with private security firm AKE Group, said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Two separate gun and bomb attacks in the restive province of Diyala, north of Baghdad, killed four people, security and medical officials said.<\/p>\n

Also north of the capital in Taji, a policeman was among two people killed in simultaneous bomb attacks, an interior ministry official said.<\/p>\n

A hospital official said three people died in the blasts.<\/p>\n

The first explosion was followed closely by a second blast as police rushed to the scene, the ministry official said, adding that 14 people were also wounded, eight of them policemen.<\/p>\n

Another bomb attack in the town of Tuz Khurmatu, north of Baghdad, killed a policeman and wounded another, an officer and a local doctor said.<\/p>\n

The overall death toll of 36 was the worst in Iraq since June 13, when a wave of apparently coordinated bombings and shootings killed 72 people.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s violence comes amid a spike in attacks in Iraq, with the country suffering violence in June that left at least 282 people dead according to an Agence France-Presse tally, although government figures said 131 Iraqis died.<\/p>\n

While violence in Iraq has declined dramatically since its peak in 2006-2007, attacks remain common across the country.<\/p>\n\n

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