WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2007
11:41 MECCA TIME, 8:41 GMT
Dozens dead in Iraq bomb attacks
At least 42 people have been killed and more than 125
wounded after three car bombs exploded in a southern
Iraqi city, according to police.
The attacks in Amara on Wednesday came amid tension
across oil-producing southern Iraq, where rival Shia
factions are struggling for influence.
The bombs exploded along a main street in Amara, the
capital of Maysan, a province home to the Marsh Arabs
and has large oil fields.
Iraq's Furat Television said two men suspected of
involvement in the blasts had been detained.
The police official said "hospitals were stretched to
the limit" because of the number of wounded.
Onlookers killed
Most people were killed in the second and third
blasts, police said.
Many onlookers had gathered after the first blast in a
parking lot and were killed or wounded when the
subsequent car bombs exploded.
Southern Iraq is witnessing a turf war between rival
Shia groups, including supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr
and his Mahdi Army militia, and its chief rival, the
powerful Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council.
A year ago, clashes broke out between militiamen and
police in Amara, prompting the dispatch of hundreds of
Iraqi troops.
Politicians targeted
The Maysan attacks came just a day of a suicide car
bomber targeted the offices of Iraq's former prime
minister and a Sunni parliament member, killing two
policemen.
Police and hospital officials said at least 12 people
were wounded in addition to the deaths as a result of
Tuesday morning's attack in western Baghdad's Hathiya
neighbourhood.
"All the casualties are policemen. They were part of
the security for the leaders staying there," an
official said.
The bombing happened less than 150 metres from the
offices of Iyad Allawi, the first post-Saddam prime
minister, and Saleh al-Mutlaq, leader of the National
Dialogue Front.
Neither politician was at their office at the time of
the explosion.
'Corpse bomb'
In the Saidiya neighbourhood of Baghdad on Tuesday, a
bomb hidden in a corpse blew up and killed an Iraqi
soldier and wounded seven people, security officials
said.
"The soldiers went to collect the corpse which was
lying in an open area when the bomb inside it exploded
and killed one soldier," an official said.
Also on Tuesday, the US military said American and
Iraqi troops detained five men suspected of
involvement in the assassination of the police chief
in central Iraq's Babil province on Sunday.
Major General Qais al-Mamoori was near Babil's capital
Hilla when a roadside bomb struck his convoy.
He was the third top Shia official to be assassinated
in four months in provinces south of Baghdad amid
intense rivalries between Shia groups.
Source: Agencies
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