Bombings kill 13 in Shiite areas of Baghdad

Bombings kill 13 in Shiite areas of Baghdad
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Baghdad (AFP) Sept 21, 2015

Four killed in suspected Iraq cholera outbreak
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 19, 2015 - A suspected cholera outbreak has killed four people west of Baghdad, where vulnerable displaced populations have been affected by the lack of clean water, health officials said Saturday.

The health ministry strongly suspects the deaths, which occurred in the Abu Ghraib area near Baghdad, were the result of a cholera outbreak first reported a week earlier.

"Last week, we announced that there 12 cases of cholera in Abu Ghraib and Najaf," health ministry spokesman Rifaq al-Araji said, referring to the holy Shiite city south of the capital.

"Since then, other cases have appeared in Abu Ghraib, and the reason is water that is not suitable for drinking," he said.

"Some people are drinking directly from the (Euphrates) river and the wells. The river water is polluted because the level is too low," Araji explained.

"We now have four dead in Abu Ghraib in suspected cholera cases," he said, adding that official laboratory results would be known soon.

He said the minister had visited the hospital in Abu Ghraib, and that more medical staff were dispatched to the area and a crisis cell set up to deal with the outbreak.

The latest confirmed cholera outbreak in Iraq killed four people in 2012 in the northern autonomous region of Kurdistan.

After a short incubation period of two to five days, cholera causes severe diarrhoea, draining the body of its water.

Bombs exploded in two Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 13 people, security and medical officials said.

A car bomb detonated near a market in the Ameen area of eastern Baghdad, and a roadside bomb exploded near a restaurant in Shaab in the north of the city.

The two attacks wounded at least 44 people, the officials said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but bombings in Baghdad are often carried out by the Islamic State jihadist group, which overran swathes of Iraq in June last year.

IS frequently targets members of the country's Shiite majority, whom it considers heretics.

But bombings in Baghdad are much less frequent than they were before the 2014 jihadist offensive, probably because the militants are occupied with operations elsewhere.

Iraqi forces backed by a US-led coalition and Iran have managed to regain significant ground north of Baghdad from IS, but much of western Iraq remains outside government control.

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Baghdad (AFP) Sept 17, 2015
Bomb attacks claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group killed at least 14 people and wounded 55 others Thursday in the Iraqi capital, security and medical officials said. One of the two attacks struck close to the entrance of a marketplace near Tayran Square. Most of the victims were civilians but at least one policeman was among the dead. The other hit the central Wathba Square, outsi ... read more

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