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DEATH AND DESTRUCTION: Iraqis search for victims after two car bombs exploded just after dawn in Baghdad's middle-class Karradah area on Thursday.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 40 persons died in a rash of car bombings in Iraq's capital over a 12-hour span, including two coordinated blasts on Thursday outside two Shia mosques that killed 15 and wounded 28 more, police said. The carnage in the capital's Karradah area came on the heels of bloodshed late on Wednesday that included four car bombs exploding within minutes of each other. At least 23 persons were killed in western Baghdad's Shula neighbourhood and a nearby suburb. Nineteen were killed in Shula alone. The explosions on both days were carried out at times when large crowds are on the capital's streets. Wednesday night's bombs came hours before an 11 p.m. curfew when many residents were out at eateries or chatting on the streets before locking themselves inside their homes.
50 militants held
Thursday's twin explosions in Karradah took place after 7 a.m. local time. Two car bombs went off in front of the Shia mosques Abdul Rasoul Ali and Albo Jumah, which were closed but are located within the heart of a busy shopping district that begins to bustle about that time. The Abdul Rasoul Ali mosque was partly damaged, including the collapse of one wall. The two car bombs exploded nearly simultaneously, police said. Five police officers were among the 15 dead. Iraqi police, meanwhile, detained 50 suspected militants in separate raids in south-eastern Baghdad and north of the capital, officials said. The violence came a day after some 80 countries pledged support for the new Iraq at a conference in Brussels and U.S. forces announced the end of an operation against militants near the Syrian border.
Zarqawi statement
Iraq's most wanted man Abu Musab al-Zarqawi announced in a purported Internet statement that an Al-Qaeda militant on Saudi Arabia's most-wanted list had been killed in the fighting with U.S. forces on the border. Karradah resembled a war zone with rows of shop fronts reduced to heaps of concrete. Several cars were on fire and smoke rose from buildings as residents fanned out on the streets. U.S. troops who had rushed to the area found 90 kgs of explosives, said a military statement. — Agencies
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