BEIJING, July 22 (Xinhuanet) -- A wave of suicide bombings have hit mostly Shi’ite Muslim areas of Baghdad. The Iraqi capital has seen violence in rise to its highest level since a Sunni insurgency overran large parts of the country’s north last month.
A charred road where a car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint in Baghdad on Saturday, killing nine people and wounding more than twenty others.
It was just one of three bombs to strike the capital within ten minutes of each other, claiming dozens of lives.
The Sunni militant group that calls itself as ISIL claimed responsibility for those suicide attacks and a spate of others in recent days.
As is so often the case, most victims were civilians.
Most of the bombs are now packed with hundreds or thousands of ball bearings like these ones from one of the latest blasts. They’re designed to cause the maximum number of fatalities.
The Prime Minister’s party believes ISIL are unlikely to use other tactics to attack Shi’ite majority Baghdad.
Security forces have begun warning citizens that bomb attacks are likely to rise in the capital towards the end of July, when the Holy fasting month of Ramadan draws to a close.
(Source: CNTV.cn)
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