{"id":37905,"date":"2013-05-20T12:21:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T09:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=37905"},"modified":"2013-05-20T12:22:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T09:22:29","slug":"iraq-bombingmore-than-30-people-dead-hundreds-wounded-series-bomb-blasts-breaking-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/iraq-bombingmore-than-30-people-dead-hundreds-wounded-series-bomb-blasts-breaking-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Bombing:More than 30 people dead hundreds wounded series bomb blasts \/ Breaking News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Iraq-Bombing-30-Dead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37910\" title=\"Iraq-Bombing-30-Dead-Breaking-News\" alt=\"Iraq-Bombing-30-Dead\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Iraq-Bombing-30-Dead.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Iraq-Bombing-30-Dead.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Iraq-Bombing-30-Dead-280x157.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>A series of bomb blasts across Iraq has left at least 34 people dead. 24 were massacred in a series of car bombs across the predominantly Shi\u2019ite city of Baghdad on Monday morning.<\/h1>\n<p>Over 130 have been wounded in the multiple blasts, with 112 in the country\u2019s capital, and 27 In Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>The nine separate car bombs struck bus stops, and market places in busy Shi\u2019ite populated regions of Baghdad, while the two in Basra targeted a restaurant and a bus stop.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital officials in Baghdad and Basra confirmed Monday morning\u2019s casualty tolls to AP.<\/p>\n<p>The bombings are the latest in a series of attacks in both Sunni and Shi\u2019ite regions, prompting fears that widespread sectarian violence is gripping the country once more.<\/p>\n<p>Over 100 have been killed in Iraq over the last week alone, with 76 people killed in a string of bombings just outside Baghdad on May 17, and explosions in the capital leaving more than 35 dead on May 15.<\/p>\n<p>Across April, more than 700 people, including 595 civilians, died in Iraq \u201cacts of terrorism,\u201d making it the deadliest month since June 2008, the UN\u2019s mission in the country said. The capital Baghdad has become the worst affected city.<\/p>\n<p>Violence is below the heights of 2006-07, but he country\u2019s al-Qaeda wing, alongside other Sunni Muslim insurgents, have been launching the attacks on an almost daily basis, in order to destabilize relations between the Iraq\u2019s Sunni Muslim minority and its Shi\u2019ite population, while seeking to undermine the power of the Shi&#8217;ite-led government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of bomb blasts across Iraq has left at least 34 people dead. 24 were massacred in a series of car bombs across the predominantly Shi\u2019ite city of Baghdad on Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,37,14],"tags":[51916,51917,77166,2160,51914,33704,26839,51918],"class_list":["post-37905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-middle-east","category-world","tag-30-people-dead-iraq-bombing","tag-baghdad-iraq-bombing","tag-breaking-news","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-bombing","tag-iraq-series-bomb-blast","tag-iraq-shiite","tag-iraq-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}