12 people die in Iraq bomb blasts

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A spate of bombings in Iraq has resulted in the death of 12 people, including a family-of-six
25 January 2014

A series of bombings in and north of Baghdad have killed 12 people, including a soldier and his entire family, according to Iraqi officials.

Police officials said that in the deadliest attack two blasts in Muqdadiyah targeted the home of a soldier, killing him, his wife, his two daughters and two sons as they were sleeping. The entire house was destroyed in the attack.

Muqdadiyah is about 60 miles north of Baghdad.

A car bomb in a commercial street in Baghdad's western district of Amariyah killed four people and wounded 12 others, police said.

In western Baghdad, a bomb blast near an outdoor market in the Sadiyah area killed two shoppers and wounded six.

Hospital officials confirmed the casualties for all attacks.

Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for Saturday's attacks.

However, multiple bombings against civilians and security forces are frequently the work of the al-Qaida affiliate in Iraq, which has been emboldened by successes of its fellow militants in the civil war next door in Syria and by widespread Sunni anger at the Shiite-led government.
Source http://www.independent.ie/world-news/12-people-die-in-iraq-bomb-blasts-29949958.html