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No group claimed responsibility for Monday’s attacks, but officials blame most of the sectarian violence that has killed nearly 2,000 people since April on Sunni Islamist insurgents linked to al Qaeda’s local wing.
Officials said two car bombs exploded and a suicide bomber in another vehicle detonated his explosives in a food market in the mostly Shia Muslim town of Jadidat al-Shatt in Diyala province, 40 km north of the capital.
The triple blasts left 13 dead and more than 50 wounded among the wreckage of fruit and vegetable stalls, local officials and police said.
‘I was selling watermelon and suddenly I heard a powerful blast at the entrance to the market. I fled from the dust and smoke when a second blast turned the place into hell,’ said Hassan Hadi, a wounded farmer being treated in hospital.
‘I was hit in my leg and lay down in shock.’
Another car bomb hit a market in the religiously-mixed town of Taji, 20 km north of Baghdad, killing at least eight more people, police and hospital sources said, reports TDS.
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