Tell my simply, why? If you are tired of discussing VT murders, tell me why THIS happened....

Up to 200 killed in Baghdad bombs

Nearly 200 people have been killed in a string of attacks in Iraq's capital, Baghdad - the worst day of violence since a US security operation began.

In one of the deadliest attacks of the last four years, some 140 people were killed in a car bombing in a food market in Sadriya district. A witness said the area had been turned into "a swimming pool of blood". (clip)

One witness told the Reuters news agency that many of the victims were women and children. "I saw dozens of dead bodies," the man said. "Some people were burned alive inside minibuses. Nobody could reach them after the explosion. "There were pieces of flesh all over the place." Ahmed Hameed, a shopkeeper in the area said: "The street was transformed into a swimming pool of blood." (clip)

About an hour earlier, a suicide car bomb attack on a police checkpoint in Sadr City killed 35 people. Another parked car bomb killed at least 11 people near a hospital in the Karrada district of Baghdad, while in al-Shurja district at least two people were killed by a bomb left on a minibus. Two other attacks in the capital killed and wounded about 11 more people.

Hospitals in Baghdad were inundated with more than 200 injured people, many of them with serious burns from the bomb at the Sadriya market. Car and suicide bombings have occurred almost daily in Baghdad in recent months, despite a US-led security crackdown since February.

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