Two unidentified gunmen fired upon innocent bystanders as they walked upon the scene causing chaos, killing journalists, worshippers and more! Hit the jump for more detail!
A pair of suicide bombers targeted Shi’ite Muslims in Iraq , killing 60 people on the “eve of the anniversary of one of their imams’ deaths”, police and medics stated. While two journalists who worked for an Iraqi television channel al-Sharqiya news were filming the men approached and shot them instantly.
“In Baghdad, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a checkpoint, killing 48 Shi’ite pilgrims on their way to visit a shrine in the Kadhimiya district, police and medical sources said. Another suicide bomber blew himself up inside a cafe in a mainly Shi’ite town of Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, killing 12 people. The cafe was targeted in an almost identical bombing 40 days ago,” reported Reuters.
“Relations between Islam’s two main denominations have come under acute strain from the conflict in Syria, which has drawn fighters from Iraq and the wider Middle East into a sectarian proxy war. More than 6,000 people have been killed in violence across the country this year, according to monitoring group Iraq Body Count, reversing a decline in sectarian bloodshed that had climaxed in 2006-07”
“They shot them in the chest and head, killing them instantly,” said a security source who declined to be named.
“I received the corpse of my cousin. It was completely charred and difficult to identify,” said Abdullah al-Baldawi, the relative of a victim, killed in the cafe bombing.
“I will leave the city of Mosul and live in the outskirts until things calm down,” said one journalist living in Mosul, who preferred to remain anonymous.
