Bomb blasts rock Iraqi churches
Bombs have gone off near four churches in the Iraqi capital and one in the northern city of Mosul, police say.
The first occurred outside an Armenian church in central Baghdad. The next hour saw three more churches hit in what looks to be orchestrated attack.
At least two people are reported killed and more than 20 injured in what seems to be a new tactic by insurgents.
A blast was reported around the same time later in Mosul, where a police station was bombed earlier in the day.
Witnesses said a car bomb detonated outside an Armenian church as an evening service was getting under way.
It blew out stained glass windows, and scattered pieces of hot metal across the street. The wreckage of at least three burned out cars was left in its wake.
"I saw injured women and children and men, the church's glass shattered everywhere. There's glass all over the floor," Juliette Agob, who was inside the church at the time, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying.
Read more here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3526084.stm
Bombs have gone off near four churches in the Iraqi capital and one in the northern city of Mosul, police say.
The first occurred outside an Armenian church in central Baghdad. The next hour saw three more churches hit in what looks to be orchestrated attack.
At least two people are reported killed and more than 20 injured in what seems to be a new tactic by insurgents.
A blast was reported around the same time later in Mosul, where a police station was bombed earlier in the day.
Witnesses said a car bomb detonated outside an Armenian church as an evening service was getting under way.
It blew out stained glass windows, and scattered pieces of hot metal across the street. The wreckage of at least three burned out cars was left in its wake.
"I saw injured women and children and men, the church's glass shattered everywhere. There's glass all over the floor," Juliette Agob, who was inside the church at the time, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying.
Read more here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3526084.stm
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