Attacks across Iraq

At least thirty-six people were killed in attacks acrossed Iraq on Sunday and one-hundred and twenty-eight were wounded. Of those thirty-six people who died, twenty-six of them were killed after two large car bomb explosions which rocked the country's capital. Manly all the bombings were located in Baghdad except for one car bombing in Fallujah and another car bombing in Kadhyima. The bombing that was located in Fallujah was targeted and Iraqi Army Patrol which killed five people, including two Iraqi soldiers. Overall fourteen people were wounded, mostly bystanders and another Iraqi soldier. Earlier on Sunday, at least ten people were killed and about fifty-eight were wounded by another explosion in Baghdad that blew up a minibus on the outskirts of a mobile phone company. Clients and employees were injured and some killed in the blast. There were two more bombings that happened Sunday. The series of explosions happened after an officer with Iraq's interior ministry was killed by a sticky bomb that was attached to his vehicle in Baghdad on saturday night. Over the past two years violence in Iraq has dropped significally, but there has been many recent spike in explosions. Iraqi politicians have been unable to form a government, and officials express the need for a government to stop the bloodshed in Iraq that has been happening for many years.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/09/19/iraq.violence/index.html?hpt=T2

iraq car bomb

Iraqis inspect the scene of a suicide car bomb targeting a crowded commercial area near an AsiaCell store, one of Iraq's biggest mobile phone providers in Baghdad Sunday.

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