Iraq bombings kill six, including four children

Posted by R.J. Jacob ⋅ May 23, 2012 ⋅ Leave a Comment

BAQUBA, Iraq — Bombings in the centre of the ethnically-mixed city of Baquba, north of Baghdad, killed six people including four children on Tuesday, an army officer and a doctor said.

The attacks struck the homes of a Sunni anti-Qaeda militiaman and a formerly internally-displaced Shiite family, both of which are in a neighbourhood that was an insurgent stronghold during the worst of Iraq’s sectarian bloodshed.

In the first bombing, militants detonated explosives at the home of Arkan Mohammed, a fighter in the Sahwa, Sunni tribal militias that sided with US forces against Al-Qaeda from late 2006, helping turn the tide of Iraq’s insurgency.