Baghdad (Reuters)-a series of car bomb attacks on Shiite areas of Iraq, including two blasts in the attack a few minutes interval on one famous bird market killed at least 16 people Friday.
These attacks also injuring more than 40 people it was primarily targeted at emerging markets often crowded on Fridays, which is a public holiday in Iraq, killing nearly 90 people in a week-long violence.
Two explosions hit the twins one bird market in the area of Kadhimiyah Shiite majority population, killing at least 11 people and 30 other people, mencderai said the officers of the security and medical officials.
Two car bombs exploded after 9: 00 am local time in the market, which is usually crowded on Fridays.
And in the province of Babil, which has a Shiite majority, two car bombs in the city of Shomali, South of Baghdad, killing five people and injuring 11 others, said security officials and doctors.
The first explosion occurred on the outskirts of the city occurred in one market.
The members of the hard-line Sunni groups, including Al Qaida frontline group in Iraq, often targeting the Shiite ghetto with bloody attacks in an effort to push the country back into the sectarian bloodshed which peaked from 2005 to 2008.
Violence is the latest in a series of riots in Iraq, which has been hit by a wave of car bombings and suicide attacks in recent weeks in the middle of a political crisis and a wave of protests in the area calling for the overthrow of the Sunni mayorits Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is Shiite.
A number of 89 people were killed in violence across the country in the last week, and January is the month of the most fatalities in Iraq since September, said AFP data.
Among the attacks since Saturday that there were three suicide bomb attacks in recent days, AFP reported.
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