Death toll rises to 22 in Baghdad's double bombings
10/11/2008 17:39
The death toll from the car bomb explosion that followed by a suicide vest
attack in northern Baghdad this morning, rose to 22 with 43 others injured, an
Interior Ministry source said.
"The latest reports said that 22 people were
killed and 43 others wounded by the coordinate two bombings," the source told
Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Earlier the source put the toll at five
killed and 30 wounded when a booby-trapped car went off first followed by a
suicide bomber who detonated his explosive-vest shortly after people gathered to
examine the first blast in a marketplace in the Sunni- dominated neighborhood of
Adhamiyah.
It is apparently that the attackers set off the car bomb explosion
and then the suicide bomber to kill scores of people, the source said.
The
powerful blasts also caused damages to several shops, stalls and civilian cars,
he said.
Iraqi security forces immediately sealed off the main roads leading
to the scene while ambulances and civilians cars were evacuating the victims to
nearby hospitals, he added.
Violence still haunts Iraq though the US military
said earlier that the level of violence was at a four-year low. Militant groups
still seem to be capable of stepping up large scale attacks.
Xinhua
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