FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 01, 2008
11:33 MECCA TIME, 8:33 GMT
Scores killed in Iraq market blasts
A female bomber targeted a popular pet
market in the centre of Baghdad
At least 65 people have been killed and at least 149
have been injured by bomb blasts in two crowded
markets in Baghdad, police have said.
A female suicide bomber detonated explosives at about
10:20am (0720 GMT) at the al-Ghazl pet market in the
centre of the Iraqi capital on Friday morning, killing
38 people, police said.
Another bomb at a bird market in southeast Baghdad's
al-Jadida neighbourhood killing at least 27 people,
police said.
An official at Baghdad's al-Kindi hospital said: "We
have a disaster here. There are too many bodies to
count. Many of them are just pieces of flesh."
Previous attacks
Al-Ghazl market has been struck several times since
the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, and had only
recently begun to recover as a popular venue amid
tightened security.
A bomb attack in November at al-Ghazl killed at least
13 people, with the US military blaming it on
Iranian-backed Shia fighters.
Hoda Abdel Hamid, Al Jazeera's correspondent in
Baghdad, said that the US and the Iraqi government
were facing one of their sternest tests yet.
"There is so much security on the streets [of
Baghdad]. Every single neighbourhood is guarded by
blast walls. There has been practically a vehicle ban
and curfew here for the past two years.
"As they lift these very stringent security measures,
the attacks come back, in the soft spots of the town."
Abdel Hamid said that an increasing poroprtion of
suicide bomb attackers were women, especially in
Baghdad and in the province of Diyala, which lies
northeast of the capital.
"One of the reasons for that is because it is mainly
men who get thoroughly checked when they enter crowded
areas - whether it is a market or buildings," she
said.
Friday's attacks come as Iraqi officials reported that
civilian deaths across Iraq in January fell to their
lowest level in nearly two years.
Combined figures obtained from the defence, interior
and health ministries showed that a total of 541
Iraqis were killed in January, compared to 887 in
October.
US military commanders say attacks of all types are
down to levels not seen since before February 2006.
Source: Agencies
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