At least two Christians killed in Baghdad attacks
ICC Note:
At least two more Christians were killed and a dozen more injured in Iraq when a string of bombings targeted Baghdad homes on Thursday.
12/30/2010 Iraq (AFP) – At least two Christians were killed and 12 people wounded in a string of six attacks on Christian homes in Baghdad on Thursday, an interior ministry official said.
The worst attack was in the central Baghdad district of Al-Ghadir, where a homemade bomb exploded around 8:00 pm (1700 GMT), killing the two Christians and wounding three others, including one Christian, the official said.
The attacks started at 7:30 pm in six different parts of the capital as the Christian community is still reeling from a massacre at a Baghdad cathedral on October 31 in which 44 worshippers and two priests died.
Al-Ghadir is an area with a significant Christian population, though many have fled following the massacre and in light of threats by Al-Qaeda to target them.
Other blasts, also from homemade bombs, injured another nine Christians.
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