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By ADAM SCHRECK and SAMEER N.迷你倉 YACOUB in Baghdad The Associated Press Two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, struck a cluster of funeral tents packed with mourning families in a Shiite neighbor- hood of Baghdad on Satur- day, the deadliest in a string of attacks around Iraq that killed at least 96 people.The assaults, the latest in a monthslong surge of vio- lence, are a chilling reminder of insurgents’ determination to reignite sectarian conl ict more than a decade at er the US-led invasion.h ousands of Iraqis have been killed in violent attacks in recent months — a level of bloodshed not seen since Iraq pulled back from the brink of civil war in 2008 —despite appeals for restraint from Shiite and Sunni politi- cal leaders.h e attack on the funeral was one of the largest single terrorist assaults on civilians in Iraq in recent years. It hap- pened shortly before sunset in the densely populated Shi- ite neighborhood of Sadr City in northeastern Baghdad.Police said at least 72 people were killed and more than 120 were wounded in that attack. One bomber was able to drive up near the tent before detonating his bomb, and another on foot blew himself up nearby, police said.The explosions set the tents and several nearby cars on fire, sending a towering plume of thick black smoke over the city.“I saw several charred bodies on the ground and tents on i re and also burn- ing cars. Wounded people were screaming in pain,’’ said Sheik Sattar al-Fartousi, one of the mourners. “h e scene was horrible. The funeral turned into an inferno.’’He said the first blast went of as dinner was being served in one of several tents set up for the funeral of a member of the al-Fartousi tribe. He estimated that more than 500 people were attend- ing the event.Civilian pickup trucks loaded with casualties, and ambulances with sirens blar- ing were seen racing from the scene.Hussein Abdul-Khaliq, a government employee who lives nearby, said the tents were packed with mourners when the blasts went of .He described seeing several lifeless bodies on the ground, and wounded women and children. The clothes of several victims were soaked with blood, and i rei ghters had to leave the scene to rei ll tanker trucks with water as they struggled to contain an immense blaze, he said.“This funeral was not a military post or a ministry building, yet it was still tar- geted,’’ Abdul-Khaliq sai迷你倉.“This shows that no place and no one is safe in Iraq.’’Less than two hours at er the funeral attack, another car bomb blast struck a com- mercial street in the nearby Ur neighborhood, killing nine people and wounding 14, police said.Gunmen later shot up a shop that had been discreetly selling liquor in the largely Sunni neighborhood of Aza- miyah, killing four people, police said.Earlier in the day, insur- gents launched a suicide attack on a police commando headquarters in the city of Beiji, an oil refining center 250 km north of Baghdad.Guards managed to kill one suicide bomber, but the three others were able to set off their explosive belts inside the compound, killing seven policemen and wounding 21 others, police said.Elsewhere, gunmen shot and killed two prison guards at er storming their houses in a village near the restive city of Mosul early Saturday. Two soldiers were killed and four others were wounded when a roadside bomb struck their convoy in Mosul, which is 360 km northwest of the Iraqi capital.Medics in nearby hospi- tals confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not autho- rized to speak to the media.There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the day’s attacks. Al-Qaida’s local franchise in Iraq frequently targets Shiite civilians and security forces in an attempt to undermine public coni - dence in the Shiite-led gov- ernment in Baghdad.Saturday’s violence came as voters in the north- ern Kurdish autonomous region cast ballots in local elections for the Kurdistan Regional Government’s 111- seat legislature. Iraqi Kurds are looking to bolster their autonomy while insulating their increasingly prosper- ous enclave from the growing violence roiling the rest of the country.UN URGES RESTRAINTThe UN warned on Sunday against revenge attacks in Iraq after two blasts in a Shiite area of Baghdad a day after a Sunni mosque was bombed.“Retaliation can only bring more violence and it is the responsibility of all leaders to take strong action not to let violence escalate further,” Gyorgy Busz- tin, the UN secretary general’s deputy special representative for Iraq, said in a statement.Saturday was the United Nations’ Inter- national Day of Peace, which calls for a “com- plete global cessation of hostilities for one day.”It was the deadliest day for Iraq this year, topping April 23, when 95 people died in terror- ist attacks.AFP儲存倉