Ramadan: The month of jihad. “Ramadan bombings kill 32 people,” from Agence France-Presse, September 29 (thanks to Twostellas):
FOUR bombs killed at least 32 people and wounded scores in busy districts of Baghdad overnight as Iraqis shopped and broke their fast for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, police said.
A car bomb exploded in a car park in central Baghdad’s busy Karrada shopping district, followed quickly by a roadside bomb nearby. The double strike killed at least 19 people and wounded 72, police said.
A short time earlier a bomb exploded in a parked car in Baghdad’s Shurta neighbourhood in the early evening, killing at least 12 people and wounding 35, police said.
At about the same time another bomb attached to a car in the nearby Hay al-Amil neighbourhood killed one person….