Attacks in Shi'ite Parts of Baghdad Kill 35

Oct 01, 2014 10:05 PM EDT

(Photo : REUTERS/STRINGER) People inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Basra, southeast of Baghdad September 30, 2014. The car bomb attack took place in a parking lot and no one was hurt, police sources said.

More than 35 people died Tuesday after a series of car bomb and mortar attacks in the Shi'ite regions of Baghdad, medical sources and Iraqi authorities reported.

The deadly attack on Tuesday was one of the most violent that the region has seen since the United States began its military attack against the Islamic State militants in August.

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No one claimed responsibility for the bombings, but the Islamic State insurgents have taken the responsibility for a series of suicide missions in Baghdad earlier this year.

Two cars were bombed in the district of al-Horreyya, taking the lives of 20 people and injuring 35.

The Sab al-Bour neighborhood was also under mortar attack, which wounded 15 people and killed five.

In a separate incident on Tuesday, a car bomb exploded in southeast Baghdad in the Shi'ite district of Zaa'faraniya, which killed seven people and wounded 18.

Another mortar attack landed northeast of the capital in the district of al-Shula, which took three lives and injured 12, according to local authorities.

Compared to the violence encountered in other regions of Iraq swathed by the insurgents, Baghdad has witnessed relatively minimal attack, but mortar attacks and bombing have been a regular occurrence in the capital.

According to security sources, the militants have been utilizing the farmland northwest of the capital, to reach the Shi'ite Muslim districts.

Reports said that there have also been several attacks on Shi'ite regions across Iraq.

Near the holy city of Njaf, in Kifil, more than one person was killed when a car bomb exploded, which also injured three other people.

Police said that in northwest Baghdad, in the Kurdish town of Khanaqin, 12 were injured, while more than four were killed during a bomb attack.

U.S.-led troops have begun launching attacks on the Islamic State militants in August, and the White House campaign was extended to Syria last week, in hopes of stopping the advance of the insurgents in the Kurdish region.

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