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Triple Car Bombing Kills 46 in S. Iraq
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VIDEO | Triple Car Bombing Kills 41, Wounds 150
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Police sealed off part of Dijlah Street as ambulances took victims to three hospitals, Lt. Col. Khalid Muhammad said. No group asserted responsibility for the attack, but residents immediately blamed Shiite factions, which many believe are behind recent assassinations and kidnappings in the city.
"It is impossible that al-Qaeda is behind these bombings," said Abu Muhannad, 30, a vendor at a vegetable market, who did not want to give his full name. "We have not heard of any existence of al-Qaeda here."
Abdul Jabar, 39, the owner of a turban shop, said that when the British withdrew from Amarah in April, Iraqi security forces could not adequately protect the city. "The number of policemen is not enough and do not have enough effective weapons," he said.
"Their security measures are very weak here," said Abu Muhannad. "At checkpoints, they don't search cars."
Wednesday's attack shattered many residents' sense of security. "I don't think there will be any safe place in Iraq after what happened today," Abu Mohammad, the bakery worker, said.
Special correspondents Zaid Sabah and Naseer Nouri in Baghdad and Saad Sarhan in Diwaniyah contributed to this report.
