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73 killed, 83 wounded in series of bombings in Baghdad

08 October 2013 01:10 (UTC +04:00)

A car bomb and a roadside bomb exploded simultaneously in the Husseiniya area in northern Baghdad on Monday evening, killing five people and injuring 20 others, a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

At least four people were killed and 12 others wounded when a car bomb went off in the Zafaraniyah area in southeastern Baghdad, the source said, adding that a car bomb in the Dora district in southern Baghdad killed four people and wounded seven others.

A car bomb parked on the side of a road in the Aalam neighborhood in southwestern Baghdad exploded on Monday evening, killing three people and wounding 11 others, while a roadside bomb went off in the Camp Sara area in eastern Baghdad, killing three people and injuring eight others, the police source said.

Two people were killed and 10 others wounded when a car bomb exploded in Tayaran Square in central Baghdad, he said, adding that a man was killed and five others were wounded when a car bomb went off in the al-Obeidi area in eastern Baghdad.

Also on Monday evening, a car bomb exploded in the Saidiya area in southwestern Baghdad, killing three people and wounding 10 others, the police source said.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the al-Qaida front in Iraq, in most cases, was responsible for such massive attacks, raising fears that the terrorist group and other militia could return to widespread violence, particularly as Iraq is trying to fend off the spillover of the escalating violence in neighboring Syria.

Iraq is witnessing its worst eruption of violence in recent years, which raises fears that the country is sliding back to the full-blown civil conflict that peaked in 2006 and 2007, when monthly death toll sometimes exceeded 3,000.

The UN Assistance Mission for Iraq has said that almost 6,000 civilians were killed and over 14,000 others injured in Iraq from January to September this year.