Suicide bomb attacks on Iraqi school, Shiite pilgrims, 29 killed
7 Oct 2013 4:18 AM IST
A suicide bomber drove a truck packed with explosives into the playground of a primary school in northern Iraq and blew himself up, killing 14 children and their headmaster on Sunday, police and medical sources said.
Another suicide bomber attacked a group of Shiite pilgrims on their way to visit a shrine in Baghdad, killing at least 14 people and wounding more than 30, some of them critically, police said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for either bombing, but the tactics used point to the Sunni Islamist al-Qaida, which views Shiites as non-believers and has been regaining momentum this year.
‘Pools of blood, shoes and flesh are covering the ground,’ said a policeman at the scene of the blast in Baghdad, which came on the anniversary of the death of a Shiite imam. Women and children were among the victims, the policeman said. More than 6,000 people have been killed across the country this year, according to monitoring group Iraq Body Count.
Another suicide bomber attacked a group of Shiite pilgrims on their way to visit a shrine in Baghdad, killing at least 14 people and wounding more than 30, some of them critically, police said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for either bombing, but the tactics used point to the Sunni Islamist al-Qaida, which views Shiites as non-believers and has been regaining momentum this year.
‘Pools of blood, shoes and flesh are covering the ground,’ said a policeman at the scene of the blast in Baghdad, which came on the anniversary of the death of a Shiite imam. Women and children were among the victims, the policeman said. More than 6,000 people have been killed across the country this year, according to monitoring group Iraq Body Count.
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