Iraqi Officials Blame Al-Qaida for Deadliest Day of Attacks This Year
VOA News
11 May 2010
Iraqi officials have blamed militants linked to al-Qaida for a series of attacks across Iraq Monday that killed at least 110 people in the country's worst day of violence this year.
There has been no official claim of responsibility for the bombings and shootings in nine Iraqi cities and towns that also wounded hundreds of people.
Iraq's Deputy Interior Minister Hussein Ali Kamal acknowledged Tuesday that lapses by Iraqi security forces may have contributed to the carnage.
The deadliest of Monday's attacks took place in Hilla, south of Baghdad. Hospital officials say at least 50 people were killed and 140 wounded in blasts outside a textile factory. Elsewhere, at least 25 people were killed in three bombings in the southern city of Basra.
A U.S. military official who oversees operations in eastern Baghdad told the Associated Press that the complexity of the attacks indicates they were coordinated.
In Baghdad Monday, gunmen killed seven Iraqi soldiers and policemen in attacks on checkpoints. In the town of Suwayra, south of the capital, 13 people were killed in a double bombing.
Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.
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