Originally published on August 29, 2013
More than 80 people were killed in attacks across Baghdad on Wednesday (August 28), while more than 260 were wounded, according to police and medical officials. The series of coordinated attacks was the worst wave of sectarian bloodshed in Iraq for at least five years.
Reuters reports, "It was not immediately clear who carried out the attacks, which appeared coordinated, but Sunni Muslim insurgents including the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq have significantly stepped up bombings this year."
The report continues:
In Sadr City, an impoverished Shi'ite district in Baghdad's northeast, two car bombs killed seven people. A restaurant owner said he saw an attacker just before one of the explosions.
"A man parked his car in front of the restaurant. He got breakfast and drank his tea. (Then) I heard a huge explosion when I was inside the kitchen," the owner, who requested anonymity, told Reuters.
"When I went outside, I saw his car completely destroyed and he had disappeared. Many people were hurt," he added.
Car bombs hit south, north and western Baghdad in a cluster of attacks early in the day and late in the evening which targeted both Shi'ite and Sunni areas of the capital.
In other violence, gunmen stormed into the home of a Shiite family in the town of Latifiya, south of Baghdad, and slaughtered seven people, including four children, according to the New York Times. Some local media reported the bodies had been decapitated.
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