Confuzzled
12-02-2007, 14:52
More than 70 people have been killed in three bomb attacks in market areas of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
Two bombs went off in quick succession at the Shorja market, killing at least 59 people and wounding about 150.
Half an hour earlier a parcel bomb exploded at the Bab al-Sharqi market, killing about 10 people, police said.
The blasts came either side of a 15-minute pause to commemorate the sectarian bombing of an important Shia Muslim shrine in Samarra one year ago.
The Samarra attack - on 22 February, but a year ago by the Islamic calendar - triggered an upsurge in sectarian violence which still grips the country costing thousands of lives a month.
Shorja market was once Baghdad's main shopping area, but amid the violent division of Iraq's religious communities it is now mostly a Shia Muslim area, and a target for Sunni extremist groups.
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Two bombs went off in quick succession at the Shorja market, killing at least 59 people and wounding about 150.
Half an hour earlier a parcel bomb exploded at the Bab al-Sharqi market, killing about 10 people, police said.
The blasts came either side of a 15-minute pause to commemorate the sectarian bombing of an important Shia Muslim shrine in Samarra one year ago.
The Samarra attack - on 22 February, but a year ago by the Islamic calendar - triggered an upsurge in sectarian violence which still grips the country costing thousands of lives a month.
Shorja market was once Baghdad's main shopping area, but amid the violent division of Iraq's religious communities it is now mostly a Shia Muslim area, and a target for Sunni extremist groups.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42562000/jpg/_42562593_smoke203ap.jpg
Read here for more
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6353487.stm