BAGHDAD: Attacks in Iraq — including twin suicide blasts against an army base and a car bomb targeting Shia Muslims — killed 30 people yesterday.
Yesterday’s deadliest violence saw 16 people killed just north of Baghdad.
A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle rigged with explosives at the entrance of an army base just north of Baghdad in the evening, before another suicide car bomber managed to enter the compound and blow himself up.
Overall, at least 16 people were killed and 39 wounded in the twin explosions in Tarmiyah, a predominantly Sunni Arab town 45 kilometres north of the capital.
Also yesterday, a car bomb in the Baghdad Jadida, in the capital’s east, killed three people.
In Baghdad’s southern outskirts, a bomb killed one person.
And a suicide bomber killed three soldiers in Anbar province.
Seven other people were killed in attacks north of the capital.
In the main northern city of Mosul, three people were killed in a bombing, while a shooting left an off-duty policeman dead. A roadside bombing in Balad, meanwhile, killed three.
AFP
