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Tags: iraq | attacks | police | official

Senior Official Avoids Death as at Least 15 Killed in Iraq Attacks

Thursday, 28 November 2013 06:07 AM EST

BAGHDAD — Attacks in Iraq on Thursday killed at least 15 as a senior police officer escaped assassination, the latest in a surge of violence nationwide that authorities have failed to stem.

The bloodshed, in which more than 6,000 people have been killed this year, is the worst violence in Iraq since 2008.

It comes just months before a general election and has forced Baghdad to appeal for international help in battling militancy.

Although there have been no claims of responsibility for much of the unrest, officials have voiced concern over a resurgent al-Qaida emboldened by the civil war raging in neighboring Syria.

In the restive city of Tikrit, north of Baghdad, a car bomb targeting Salaheddin provincial police chief Maj. Gen. Juma al-Dulaimi killed three civilians and wounded two others, police and medical sources said.

Dulaimi himself escaped unharmed.

And a suicide car bombing at a police checkpoint near Samarra, also in Salaheddin, killed three police including a first lieutenant and wounded three more, according to officials.

Meanwhile in Baghdad, a roadside bomb targeting a patrol of Sahwa anti-al-Qaida-militiamen killed two people, one of them a Sahwa fighter, and two other bombs elsewhere in the capital left four people dead.

From late 2006 onwards, Sunni tribal militias known as the Sahwa turned against their co-religionists in al-Qaida and sided with the U.S. military, helping to turn the tide of Iraq's insurgency.

Sunni militants view them as traitors and frequently target them.

Also on Thursday, gun attacks in the northern city of Mosul killed three people, including two members of the Yazidi religious sect, near their home.

Violence worsened sharply after security forces stormed a Sunni protest camp in northern Iraq on April 23, sparking clashes in which dozens died.

The authorities have made some concessions aimed at placating the protesters and Sunnis in general, such as freeing prisoners and raising the salaries of Sahwa fighters, but the underlying issues remain unaddressed.

Thursday's attacks take to nearly 600 the number of people killed this month, according to AFP figures based on security and medical sources.

© AFP 2023


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