At least 22 people killed, over 100 wounded in string of attacks across Iraq
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Source: Associated Press
@BreakingNews: At least 22 people killed, over 100 wounded in string of attacks across Iraq, officials say - @AP
Apr 15, 3:48 AM EDT
IRAQ: STRING OF MORNING ATTACKS KILLS 27
BY SINAN SALAHEDDIN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A series of attacks across Iraq killed 27 people and wounded well over 100 on Monday morning, officials said.
The attacks, many involving car bombs, took place less than a week before Iraqis in much of the country are scheduled to vote in the country's first elections since the 2011 U.S. troop withdrawal. The vote will be a key test of security forces' ability to keep voters safe.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but coordinated attacks are a favorite tactic of al-Qaida's Iraq branch.
Iraqi officials believe the insurgent group is growing stronger and increasingly coordinating with allies fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad across the border. They say rising lawlessness on the Syria-Iraq frontier and cross-border cooperation with the Syrian militant group Nusra Front has improved the militants' supply of weapons and foreign fighters.
Nearly all of the deadly attacks reported by police officials were bombings, which struck Baghdad, in the western city of Fallujah, the contested northern city of Kirkuk and towns south of the capital. Another 100 people were wounded.
Windows rattled from the force of a blast in central Baghdad when a bomb struck the central commercial district of Karrada. That blast and others in the capital, including one caused by a parked car bomb that went off in a bus station, killed 10.
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