Bombs near mosque in Iraq kill 38
18 May 2013 8:09 AM IST
Two bombs near a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad killed 38 people and wounded 55 on Friday, police and a doctor said, after two days of attacks targeting Iraqi Shiites in which dozens died. One bomb exploded as worshippers were departing the Saria mosque in the city of Baquba while a second detonated after people gathered at the scene of the first blast, the sources said.
The violence raises the spectre of tit-for-tat killings common during the height of sectarian violence in Iraq that killed tens of thousands of people, and comes at a time of festering sectarian tensions between Iraq’s Sunni minority and Shiite majority. The bombings are the latest in a series of attacks that have targeted both Sunni and Shiite places of worship in past weeks.
The violence raises the spectre of tit-for-tat killings common during the height of sectarian violence in Iraq that killed tens of thousands of people, and comes at a time of festering sectarian tensions between Iraq’s Sunni minority and Shiite majority. The bombings are the latest in a series of attacks that have targeted both Sunni and Shiite places of worship in past weeks.
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