(December 22nd, 2011) A wave of deadly blasts struck Baghdad, here's is raw footage of the aftermath, news link and info below.
A series of bomb blasts coinciding with morning rush hour have been triggered in the Iraq capital Baghdad, killing at least 57 people and injuring over 130.
The apparently coordinated blasts, which left at least 133 people wounded, were the first major sign of violence in a crisis that has threatened Iraq's fragile political truce and heightened sectarian tensions.
The attacks, the deadliest in more than two weeks, largely coincided with the
morning rush hour. Security forces cordoned off bomb sites, AFP correspondents and officials
said.
They struck in the Allawi, Bab al-Muatham and Karrada districts of central Baghdad, the Adhamiyah, Shuala and Shaab neighbourhoods in the north, Jadriyah in the east, Ghazaliyah in the west and Al-Amil and Dura in the south, the officials said.
An interior ministry official said 11 attacks killed a total of 27 people and wounded 133. Health ministry spokesman Ziad Tariq put the toll at 31 dead and 143 wounded. The latest figures claim that at least 57 have died.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/8972280/Iraq-wave-of-deadly-bomb-blasts-hit-Baghdad-rush-hour.html
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