BAGHDAD: A wave of violent chaos engulfed Iraq’s capital yesterday as a series of co-ordinated bombs, including at least two suicide attacks, struck the city, killing at least 128 people and wounding as many as 513 others.
Four explosions hit Baghdad within the space of a few minutes, all close to government buildings. An hour earlier, a suicide car bomb detonated near a police patrol in the southern neighbourhood of Doura.
The attacks, the worst since October 25 when two car bombs killed 155, further called into question the government’s ability to protect its citizens and prompted angry complaints about failures by the police and army.
“We have already sent a formal message to Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki saying that the current security plan has failed,” Hadi al Amri, the head of the Iraqi parliament’s security commission, said. “It is clear that we need a new security plan.
“There have been consistent warnings that government and civilian targets will be increasingly attacked in the run-up to the national elections, but insufficient action has been taken to stop those attacks.”
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