Iraq was rocked by a series of attacks yesterday in one of the deadliest attack during this year where more than 100 people were killed and more than 300 others injured in separate coordinated attacks in different parts of country throughout the day. <br/>According to Voice of Iraq news agency, the deadliest attacks took place in Hilla textile factory where two car bombs and a suicide bomber with explosive belt targeted people who were leaving the facility’s compound. At least 55 people were killed and 220 others wounded in the triple attack. The incident occurred when two car bombs hit the factory’s staff and when people and emergency workers gathered at the attack’s location, a suicide bomber hit them.<br/>In Basra, at least 16 people were killed and 50 more were wounded in the three explosions that rattled al-Hamza market and Khamsa Meel region in the city. A curfew was imposed there.<br/>Twelve other people were killed in separate attacks around the Fallujah, west of Baghdad, the northern city of Mosul, in Iskandiriyah, south of Baghdad, and near Tarmiyah, north of the Iraqi capital. <br/>Ten people killed in two explosions that rocked a popular marketplace in al-Suweira district, north of Kut.<br/>Seven security personnel were killed and 11 other servicemen were wounded in attacks by unknown gunmen on six checkpoints in Baghdad. The gunmen used guns with silencers in all the attacks.<br/>In another incident five civilians were killed and seven others wounded when unknown gunmen detonated four houses belonging to security elements in central Falluja city. In a separate incident two policemen were killed and 13 persons including seven policemen were wounded when three roadside bombs went off in Baghdad.<br/>
News On AIR | May 11, 2010 1:43 PM
Series of attacks kill over 100 in Iraq