TEMPO.CO, Baghdad - Ramadan has not stopped bomb blasts in Iraq. The condition, instead, has worsened. A wave of bombings on Saturday night in Baghdad killed 65 people and wounded 190. Iraq has seen its worst violence since 2008 with over 520 killed this month.
Twelve car bombs and a roadside bomb exploded in Baghdad while a another bomb went off in Madain, to the south of the capital, a police colonel and a medical official said.
The bombs struck when tens of Baghdad residents in cafes having a meal after breaking their fast during the holy month of Ramadan.
In the city of Mosul, 400 kilometeres northwest of Baghdad, a roadside bomb killed a policeman on patrol and wounded another, while a car bomb southeast of the city killed a woman and wounded 22 others, including seven police officers.
Saturday was Iraq’s deadliest attack since June10, which claimed the lives of 78 victims. The Saturdaybombings came only a day after a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Sunni mosque in central Iraq, killing at least 20 people in the middle of a sermon.
"I was in the first row of people praying. We were listening to the preacher give his sermon. Suddenly, a huge explosion shook the place," 22-year-old student Salman Ubaid told Reuters.
Over 2,700 people have been killed in Iraq since the beginning of 2013.
RT NEWS | NATALIA SANTI
