BAGHDAD - Three bombs exploded near a crowded market and religious places in southwestern Baghdad, on Thursday (06/23/2011). At least 23 people were killed and dozens wounded. It was mentioned by several sources of hospital and safety.
The bombs exploded in a circuit in the district of al-Shurta al-Rabaa in the Iraqi capital. One bomb exploded near Husseiniya, religious places for Shiite Muslims.
One Interior Ministry source said the bombs were transported in wooden carts normally used to bring ba
now merchandise.
"I was walking toward the market when the first bomb exploded. People were running to see what happens and the second bomb exploded," said Sijad, a teenager who lived in the area.
"Suddenly there are bodies everywhere around me. Most of the women and children. The goods they are scattered everywhere," said the witness.
One Interior Ministry source said that the number of victims killed 23 people and injured 107 people. Sources at three hospitals said at least 35 people were killed and 85 injured.
As for Baghdad security operations center said that the number of early deaths of 11 people and injured 70 people.
Bombing was the latest in a series of violence is rising again in Iraq. This attack happened several months before a full withdrawal of U.S. troops.
Hundreds of people were killed in a wave of recent violence in Iraq, including a large number of Iraqi police.
A total of 211 people were killed in violence in April alone, according to official data, while in May the number of Iraqis killed in violence reached 177 people.
Although violence is not like in 2006-2007 when the sectarian conflict raging anti-US violence accompanied, about 300 people are killed every month in 2010, and July is the deadliest year since May 2008.
U.S. military forces completed the withdrawal on a large scale in late August 2010, which was announced as the end of the combat mission in Iraq. After the withdrawal, the number of U.S. soldiers in Iraq to about 50,000 people. The remaining U.S. troops will be withdrawn completely by the end of this year.
Withdrawal of the last U.S. combat brigade is hailed as the symbolic moment of the U.S. presence in Iraq which was considered controversial. This means that already more than seven years after the U.S. invasion to oust Saddam.
However, U.S. forces continue to conduct joint operations with Iraqi forces and Kurdish peshmerga guerrillas in the provinces of Diyala, Nineveh and Kirkuk.
The series of attacks and bombings since the U.S. forces withdrawn from Iraqi cities by the end of June 2009 has raised questions about the ability of Iraqi security forces in protecting the population from guerrilla attacks, such as the Sunni militant group Al Qaeda.
Militants linked to Al Qaeda now seems to challenge the soldiers and Iraqi police when the U.S. reduces troop numbers from about 170,000 at the peak point or three years ago, to 50,000 soldiers on 1 September 2010.
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