There were at least four terrorist attacks in Baghdad on Sunday. The first explosions occurred in the morning at one of the busy markets in the Shiite quarter - two mines planted in cars went off. 18 people were killed and about 50 were injured. The third explosion occurred in the afternoon, when a suicide bomber driving a minibus detonated an explosive device near the courthouse in a residential area of the capital. Eight people died. A little later, a fourth explosion occurred on Karrada Street - a bus was blown up using a remote control, killing 11. It wasn't just the Iraqis who suffered losses on Sunday. Two British soldiers were killed and one was seriously injured when two military helicopters collided in mid-air near Taji, a US military base. The total number of Britons killed in Iraq over four years has exceeded 140.
Saturday was no less bloody, when an explosion in the holy Shiite city of Karbala killed 44 people and injured 224. On the same day, a second explosion occurred in the south of Baghdad, on a bridge over the Tigris River. Ten people died. The terrorist attacks are carried out despite a large-scale operation by Iraqi and American troops called “Law Establishment” to establish a security regime in Baghdad. The number of civilian deaths in Iraq since the beginning of the year is 2,871, to which were added the victims of Sunday's terrorist attacks.
