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12 explosions in Iraq kill at least 152
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-14 21:19
A dozen explosions ripped through the Iraqi capital in rapid succession
Wednesday, killing at least 152 people and wounding 542 in a series of attacks
that began with a suicide car bombing that targeted laborers assembled to find
work for the day. Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility, the Associated Press
reported.
The one-day death toll was believed to be the worst in the capital since
major combat ended in May 2003, and Al-Jazeera said Al-Qaida in Iraq linked the
attacks to the recent rout of militants from the city of Tal Afar by U.S. and
Iraqi forces.
Before dawn Wednesday, 17 men were executed in a village north of Baghdad,
which pushed the death toll in all violence in and around the capital to 169.
Wednesday's worst bombing killed at least 88 people and wounded 227 in the
heavily Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah where the day laborers had gathered
shortly after dawn.
The carnage was the worst single day of bloodshed since March 2, 2004, when
coordinated blasts from suicide bombers, mortars and planted explosives hit
Shiite Muslim shrines in Karbala and in Baghdad, killing at least 181 and
wounding 573.
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