adminBAGHDAD. — A suicide bombing at the funeral of an Iraqi anti-Al-Qaeda fighter killed 12 people yesterday as figures showed nearly 950 people died last month in spiralling violence ahead of elections. The violence, Iraq’s worst protracted period of unrest since it emerged from a gruesome Sunni-Shiite sectarian war, has sparked fears the country is slipping back into all-out blood-letting.
Officials have adopted an array of measures aimed at halting the attacks, focussing their efforts on resurgent Al-Qaeda front groups emboldened by the war raging in neighbouring Syria.
Yesterday, a suicide bomber blew himself up at the funeral of an anti-Al-Qaeda fighter who had been killed just a day earlier near the restive confessionally mixed city of Baquba.— AFP.
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