People inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Basra, southeast of Baghdad yesterday.
At least 35 people were killed in a wave of car bomb and mortar attacks in mainly Shia Muslim districts of Baghdad yesterday, police and medical sources said.
Two car bombs exploded in busy streets in the Al Horreyya district, killing 20 people and wounding 35, according to the police and medical sources. There was also a mortar attack in the Sab al-Bour neighbourhood of northern Baghdad that killed five people and wounded 15.
Later yesterday, at least seven people were killed and 18 wounded when a car bomb exploded in the mainly Shia Zaa’faraniya district of southeast Baghdad, police said.
Three mortars also landed in the Shia Al Shula district in the capital’s northwest, killing three people and wounding 12, police said.
There were also several small-scale attacks in predominantly Shia areas across the country. In the southern oil hub of Basra, a parked car bomb exploded in a parking lot, setting ablaze five cars but causing no casualties, police said.
In the town of Kifil, near the Shia holy city of Najaf, at least one person was killed and three wounded by a car bomb. And in Karbala, a car bomb blast on a busy street wounded at least seven people and torched a police car, police said.
In the Kurdish-controlled town of Khanaqin, 140km northeast of Baghdad, at least four Kurdish security members were killed and 12 wounded in a bomb attack on their patrol, police and medics said.
