Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Bomb attacks on Christians kill 37 in Baghdad

Sinan Salaheddin
Associated Press
December 25, 2013

A city street of Baghdad during the 2003 invasion.
A city street of Baghdad during the 2003 invasion.

Militants in Iraq targeted Christians in three separate Christmas Day bombings in Baghdad, killing at least 37 people, officials said Wednesday.


In one attack, a car bomb went off near a church in the capital’s southern Dora neighborhood, killing at least 26 people and wounding 38, a police officer said.

Earlier, two bombs ripped through a nearby outdoor market simultaneously in the Christian section of Athorien, killing 11 people and wounding 21, the officer said.

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