At least 20 people have died and over 50 were injured in a string of bombings and armed attacks in different parts of Iraq, according to police sources reported. Sources have indicated that a total of six car bombs have exploded in the early hours of Sunday at various locations. The largest number of fatalities recorded in Al Taji, 30 kilometers north of Baghdad, where six people were killed and eight others were injured by the explosion of four car bombs in different neighborhoods of the population. A similar attack occurred in the town of Al Kut, 180 miles south of the capital, where cinco people were killed and six others were injured by the explosion of a car bomb driven by a suicide bomber who detonated a post control in the south of the city. Another car exploded near a vegetable market in Banisat Han, 30 kilometers east of Baghdad, killing one person and wounding five. Also, an explosives expert died while trying to defuse a bomb placed in a car in the area of Suleiman Bey, in the northern province of Salaheddin.
Death of a Ministry of Interior
In Baghdad, a group armed with silenced pistols killed an Interior Ministry official in Al Amel neighborhood in the southwest, and soon erupted near a car bomb that left four injured. A police officer also was seriously injured by armed men in the district of Al Masur , west of the capital, while two others were injured by the explosion of two bombs by a passing police patrol in Al Tarmiya, 40 kilometers north of Baghdad.
Surge of violence
These attacks occur after nine people were killed Saturday, including a ten year old girl and a soldier, by the explosion of a car bomb and several explosive devices in the eastern province of Diyala and around the capital. Iraq is currently experiencing a surge in violence that has raised doubts about the safety of the numerous attacks, particularly against Shia targets and law enforcement, and which have intensified over the past year after the final departure of U.S. troopson December 18.
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