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Bombings in Baghdad kill at least 33

2013-09-12 2 Dailymotion

STORY: A co-ordinated car and suicide bomb attack on a Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi capital killed at least 33 people on Wednesday (September 11) evening, police and medical sources said.<br/> <br />Worshippers were leaving the mosque after evening prayers when the car bomb exploded, and as onlookers rushed to help the wounded, a suicide bomber blew himself up in their midst.<br/> <br />Policemen saw a second man fumbling to detonate an explosive belt and managed to stop him, but an angry mob overcame them and stabbed the would-be-suicide bomber him to death.<br/> <br />A further 55 people were wounded, some critically, in the blasts, which took place in the northwestern Kasra district of Baghdad.<br/> <br />It was not immediately clear who had carried out the attack, but Sunni Islamist militants who view Shi'ites as non-believers, have been regaining momentum and striking on a near daily basis this year.<br/> <br />More than two years of civil war in neighbouring Syria have brought sectarian tensions to the bo

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