New Terrorist Attacks Target Iraq Pilgrims: Dozens Martyred, Injured

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - On Sunday afternoon, twelve people were killed when a bomb attack targeted Shia pilgrims in Baghdad’s northern neighborhood of Waziriyah as they were heading to a shrine to mark the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Mohammed Javad (PBUH), the ninth Imam of Shia Muslims. Police stated that at least 23 people were also wounded in the act of terror. Earlier in the day, at least 15 people, most of them children, were killed and about 90 others wounded when attackers set off explosives-laden vehicles next to an elementary school and a police station in Iraq’s northern village of Qabak. No group has claimed responsibility for the blasts, which bear the hallmarks of al-Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq, who seek to destabilize the central government. On Saturday, 78 people were killed in a day of bombing attacks across Iraq, including one against Shia pilgrims in northern Baghdad. The north Baghdad attack claimed the lives of 51 people, leaving 107 others injured. It targeted Shia pilgrims in Baghdad’s northern neighborhood of Adhamiyah as they were on their way to a holy shrine in the nearby Kadhimiya neighborhood. According to the United Nations, almost 1,000 people were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded in violence in Iraq in September, making it one of the deadliest months in recent years. Iraq’s Interior Ministry has said that militants have launched an open war in Iraq and they want to push the Arab country into chaos./149