.Police: Two simultaneous bombs kill 7 at Shiite district intersections
BAGHDAD: Two simultaneous car-bomb explosions Wednesday rocked the neighborhood of Baghdad's holiest Shiite Muslim shrine, killing at least seven people and wounding 27 others, police reported.
One blast, from a parked car, struck al-Zahraa Square, an intersection one kilometer (a half-mile) from the large Kazimiyah shrine, said a police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The second explosion, also from an unoccupied vehicle, occurred at the Aden intersection, at the western entrance to the Kazimiyah neighborhood.
The long-running series of bombings aimed at Iraq's majority Shiite population has been blamed on Sunni extremists seeking to inflame animosities between the two sects.
In southern Iraq late Tuesday, three gunmen in a speeding automobile shot and killed a junior aide to the country's pre-eminent Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, police and a source in the ayatollah's office reported Wednesday.
Sheik Raheem al-Hasnawi, al-Sistani's representative in the al-Mishkhab area, 35 kilometers (20 miles) south of the southern Shiite shrine city of Najaf, was killed around 11 p.m. Tuesday near his home on the north side of Najaf, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns.
Further details were not immediately available. Both intra-Shiite violence and attacks by Sunni extremists have claimed the lives of Shiite figures in Iraq's sectarian-political turmoil.
In the city of Beiji, 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Maj. Enad Khattab, a Beiji police director, was shot dead along with his brother at about 10 p.m. Tuesday as they drove in central Beiji, a local police officer reported.
He spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns.
IHT
One blast, from a parked car, struck al-Zahraa Square, an intersection one kilometer (a half-mile) from the large Kazimiyah shrine, said a police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The second explosion, also from an unoccupied vehicle, occurred at the Aden intersection, at the western entrance to the Kazimiyah neighborhood.
The long-running series of bombings aimed at Iraq's majority Shiite population has been blamed on Sunni extremists seeking to inflame animosities between the two sects.
In southern Iraq late Tuesday, three gunmen in a speeding automobile shot and killed a junior aide to the country's pre-eminent Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, police and a source in the ayatollah's office reported Wednesday.
Sheik Raheem al-Hasnawi, al-Sistani's representative in the al-Mishkhab area, 35 kilometers (20 miles) south of the southern Shiite shrine city of Najaf, was killed around 11 p.m. Tuesday near his home on the north side of Najaf, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns.
Further details were not immediately available. Both intra-Shiite violence and attacks by Sunni extremists have claimed the lives of Shiite figures in Iraq's sectarian-political turmoil.
In the city of Beiji, 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Maj. Enad Khattab, a Beiji police director, was shot dead along with his brother at about 10 p.m. Tuesday as they drove in central Beiji, a local police officer reported.
He spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns.
IHT
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