(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - More than 500 people, which most of them are from Shiite community were killed since the beginning of current July in Iraq, by a number of car bombings, roadside bombs devices and armed attacks.
Till now, no one claimed responsibility for the bombings that took place this month, despite security authorities that accused the armed groups belonging to al-Qaeda in Iraq.
As 65people were killed and 190 were wounded by 12 car bombs and two bombs that hit different areas in the capital Baghdad yesterday.
AFP news agency said that the toll number was based on security, military and medical sources, since the beginning of July, about 525 people were killed in Iraq, which means that the rate of victims of the daily violence in Iraq is amounted to about 25 people.
The agency said that Saturday's attacks were the deadliest in the country since 78 people were killed on the tenth of June.
Violence attacks in Iraq increasingly have a sectarian and have escalated to target mosques in different parts of the country.
Iraq is witnessing a new wave of violence targeting cafes in which young people gather in it, especially after Iftar in Ramadan as well as football playgrounds, in bloody attacks that killed and wounded dozens over the past weeks.
The security services of the army and police forces have failed to extend its control on the ground and reduce the escalation of violence, although the change conducted by on many of its leaders during the last three months the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Nuri al-Maliki, who has ruled the country since 2006, as Iraq’s forces is around 800 thousand men
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21 July 2013 - 06:28
News ID: 443088
AFP news agency said that the toll number was based on security, military and medical sources, since the beginning of July, about 525 people were killed in Iraq, which means that the rate of victims of the daily violence in Iraq is amounted to about 25 people.
