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The Explosion Epicenter
Three blasts went off in the morning in Baghdad, killing dozens and wounding more than a hundred. Today’s blasts are the second big series of explosions happened in December.
Roughly at 7:00 a.m., a suicide attacker drove to day laborers on Tayaran Square in a car full of explosives. The bomber first lured laborers to his vehicle with promises of work and drove into the crowd in the second move.
A powerful blast went off to kill 45 and wound 148. The victims were blown apart before the eyes of the witnesses.
Most of victims were Shiites. They were poor day laborers – carpenters, plumbers, bricklayers and painters - traditionally gathering on Tayaran Square early in the morning to look for construction orders.
Tayaran Square is almost the very center of the city. It has lots of street cafes and stores. Nearby, there are several governmental buildings and an entry to the bridge that crosses the Tigris River to the U.S.-guarded Green Zone, where foreign embassies and the parliament of Iraq are located.
Soon after the explosion, the gunfire erupted that could be caused both by insurgents and the police. Another car of explosives went off en route of the police patrol, killing seven people.
But it was not the end of the terror actions in Baghdad, Reuters reported. The third bomb exploded in the city in an hour and a half, this one with no casualties, according to preliminary data.
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