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More than 200 Dead in Baghdad

The number of dead and injured following the attacks in Iraq’s capital city continues to rise. The recent bomb attacks, the bloodiest attacks of the IS-terrorist militia in Baghdad this year. In Iraq, the state of mourning.

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The number of victims of the terrorist attack on a popular shopping district in Baghdad has risen to at least 213. More than 300 people had been injured, some seriously, BelTA learned from the Iraqi Ministry of health. The terrorist militia “Islamic state” (IS) known in a statement to the assassination.

In the district of Karada was detonated on the morning of Sunday, an explosives-Laden car. Because many Iraqis went out during the month of Ramadan to eat and late purchases are completed, were in the city center of Baghdad, still a lot of people on the go. Several buildings were severely damaged, collapsed in part a and burned out, including the shopping centre. The number of victims increased several times, because helpers have recovered more bodies from under the rubble and because of the seriously injured died in the hospital.

IS bomb against Shiites

The IS said that the attack was directed against members of the Shia majority population. The Sunni IS militia are perpetrated again and again attacks on Shiites. They considered this as a Breakaway and wants to exacerbate tensions between the two main currents of Islam in Iraq. In the past, the militia to numerous attacks in Iraq had known. So at least 86 people died in may in a series of attacks in Baghdad.

Assistant bergen dead: The bomb attack was the bloodiest in Baghdad this year

Another explosive device exploded on Sunday, according to police circles in a market in the Shia district of Al-Shaab in the North of the city. There have been at least two Deaths.

Prime Minister orders new safety concept

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi visited the stop places, and ordered a three-day state mourning. His convoy was pelted by angry people with stones and bottles. Abadi had promised after the re-conquest of the IS-stronghold of Fallujah, more security, however, no decline in attacks is yet to be observed.

Scene of destruction: the force of The Detonation brought several buildings to collapse

Now the head of the government ordered new security measures. So he ordered the interior Ministry to inspect vehicles at the entrance to the capital, sharper. In addition, the use of new explosive detectors at ordente. The detectors that are currently being used by the security forces, will often be completely useless. A British businessman had been sold several years ago to Iraq. Furthermore, the security personnel should provide to the control in the future while working cell phones are not allowed to use. The reconnaissance from the air is to be enhanced, the coordination between the security forces in the capital improved and the control items to be organized.

IS sleeper cells in the country

Whether the new security concept will bring improvements, it remains to be seen. Because of the many vehicles that pass daily through the city limits of Baghdad, will likely be able to avoid such attacks like Sunday’s are difficult to completely.

In the criticism: The Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi

The fact is that ISIS seems to be now changing their tactics. The IS trials, the reward humiliating defeat in Fallujah with other attacks, said a former army officer in Baghdad. The adoption of the government, the attacks had so far been controlled only from one area, was a mistake. There are sleeper cells in the country that operated quite independently of each other. After the taking of Fallujah, the Iraqi army brings the storm on the IS-stronghold of Mosul in position. Mosul is considered the de facto capital of the IS in Iraq.

“Terrorists put a stop”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned the attacks in Baghdad as well as the IS RAID on a Restaurant in Bangladesh, in which 28 people were killed. There is no justification for these barbaric, inhumane acts. International cooperation should be further intensified to stop the terrorists, said the Chancellor. Federal foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) said it’ll show once more that the terrorists of the so-called IS not before me, innocent children, mothers and fathers murdering in the name of their hateful ideology.

The U.S. state Department said it was a “mass murder” of Innocent, the documents, the contempt for mankind of the IS. The United States put more everything “to take over the world in the fight against the Evil combine”, the terrorist safe havens in Syria and Iraq and to destroy their global networks, said Ministry spokesman John Kirby. The EU foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, spoke to the families of the victims condolences, and said Iraq was the EU in the fight against the Sunni extremists to his side.

cw/jj (dpa, afp, rtr)

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