Car bombs kill 54 in Shi'ite districts of Baghdad


  • World
  • Monday, 30 Sep 2013

Residents inspect the mangled remains of a vehicle at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City, September 30, 2013. REUTERS/Wissm al-Okili

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Car bombs killed at least 54 people in mostly Shi'ite Muslim areas of Baghdad on Monday as suspected Sunni Muslim militants pursued a campaign to plunge Iraq back into sectarian strife.

Altogether 14 bombs shook Baghdad, the deadliest of them in Sadr City, where a white car blew up near where men had gathered to seek work, killing seven people, including two soldiers.

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