Car bombs kill 30 in Shi'ite districts of Baghdad
Multiple car bombings in predominantly Shi'ite districts of
Baghdad killed at least 30 people on Saturday the latest in a series of attacks
that threaten to sink Iraq once again into full-blown sectarian conflict. Most
of the attacks struck in busy commercial areas. The deadliest explosion took
place in the northern neighborhood of Tobchi, where 10 people were killed when
a car bomb exploded in a busy commercial street. Another car bomb exploded in a
commercial street in the Karrada neighborhood, killing at least four people. It
was unclear who was behind the blasts. Sectarian tensions in Iraq have been
inflamed by the civil war in neighboring Syria, which has drawn in Shi'ite and
Sunni fighters from Iraq and beyond to fight on opposite sides of the conflict.
More than 535 people have been killed in militant attacks in July so far,
according to violence monitoring group Iraq Body Count.
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