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| Iraq crisis: Fresh bombings kill at least 13 | Iraq crisis: Fresh bombings kill at least 13 |
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| At least 13 people have been killed in new bomb attacks in Iraq, a day after a wave of bombings across the country left at least 70 people dead. | At least 13 people have been killed in new bomb attacks in Iraq, a day after a wave of bombings across the country left at least 70 people dead. |
| Two car bombs hit the northern town of Tuz Khurmato, a device went off in a cattle market in Kirkuk, and a suicide bomber struck in the town of Tarmiyah. | Two car bombs hit the northern town of Tuz Khurmato, a device went off in a cattle market in Kirkuk, and a suicide bomber struck in the town of Tarmiyah. |
| The spate of bombings has marked the period as one of the most violent in Iraq in recent months. | The spate of bombings has marked the period as one of the most violent in Iraq in recent months. |
| The attacks have been linked to growing political and sectarian tension. | The attacks have been linked to growing political and sectarian tension. |
| In the latest attacks, three people were killed when the bombs went off simultaneously in Tuz Khurmato, a town populated mainly by ethnic Turkmen. | |
| Tuz Khurmato is claimed by the government in Baghdad and ethnic Kurds, who inhabit a semi-autonomous region in the north. | Tuz Khurmato is claimed by the government in Baghdad and ethnic Kurds, who inhabit a semi-autonomous region in the north. |
| Elsewhere, gunmen and a suicide bomber killed three people in an attack on an army patrol in a Sunni area of Tarmiyah, 50km (30 miles) north of Baghdad. | |
| Further north, six people died when three bombs exploded in the cattle market in al-Aruba district in Kirkuk. The string of attacks also left dozens of people injured. | |
| Iraq has been rocked by bombings since Monday, when attacks wreaked carnage across the country. | |
| Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki vowed to make immediate changes to Iraq's security strategy and pledged that militants "will not be able to return [Iraq] to the sectarian conflict". | |
| No group has said it carried out Monday's attacks, but tension between the Shia Muslim majority, which leads the government, and minority Sunnis has been growing since last year. | |
| Violence has surged over the past month since an army raid on a Sunni anti-government protest camp near the northern town of Hawija left 50 people dead. | |
| The demonstrators accused the government of targeting the Sunni community, something the government denies. | |
| There are fears the level of violence might return to the kind reached at its peak in 2006 and 2007. |