Скачать или смотреть 4:3 Suicide bomber sets off explosive belt near a Shiite mosque

(16 May 2013) SHOTLIST
1. Tracking shot of ambulances and fire engines outside Shiite mosque hit by attack, shot tracks along past blood in street and past stretcher outside mosque and then into mosque compound
2. Close-up of shoe near blood, pull out and tracking right to more blood near chairs, tilt up to sign
3. Wide of people inside mosque, shots tracks outside to blood-stained road
4. Close-up of blood stained road, shot tracks to yellow car damaged in blast and then pans as security personnel approach mosque
5. Mid of distraught relative of blast victim amid group, shot pulls out and pans as officials walk into mosque, tilt up to blood stained sign above mosque reading (Arabic) "Husseiniyat al-zahra"
STORYLINE
Car bombs hit Shiite neighbourhoods of the Iraqi capital for the second day in a row on Thursday, part of a series of attacks across the country that left 21 people dead and raised concerns over a return to sectarian bloodshed.
In the ethnically-mixed city of Kirkuk shortly after sunset, a suicide bomber set off his explosive belt near a Shiite mosque after he was prevented by guards from entering.
Police said four people were killed and 42 were wounded in the attack that was apparently targeting a funeral inside the mosque.
The day of violence began with a blast which targeted a bus and taxi stop during the morning rush hour in Baghdad's eastern Sadr City neighbourhood.
Nine people were killed, including a seven-year old child, and 16 were wounded in that attack, two officers said.
Another car bomb hit a small market at a taxi stop in Baghdad's eastern suburb of Kamaliya, killing three civilians and wounding 14 others there, the officers said.
And in the capital's northern Chikok district, two civilians were killed and 10 were wounded when a car bomb missed a police patrol that was passing through, two other police officers said.
In the northern city of Mosul, a suicide attacker rammed his car into an army check point, killing two soldiers and wounding three others, another police officer said.
In Baghdad's southwestern neighbourhood of Baiyaa, drive-by gunmen shot and killed a brother of a Sunni lawmaker and wounded two of his guards, two police officials said.
Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures for all the attacks.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk to the media.
The spike in violence comes amid growing tensions between the Shiite-led government and Iraq's Sunni minority over what they consider second-class treatment.
A bloody government crackdown on militants last month in a protest camp in the country's north fuelled the latest tensions.
Iraq's embattled Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Thursday blamed sectarian tensions for the latest attacks.
Incitement could be coming from inside or outside the country, al-Maliki added.
No one has claimed responsibility, but car and suicide bombings are a hallmark of al-Qaida's Iraq branch.
The spike in attacks, after a general decrease in violence, has raised fears of a return to the sectarian bloodshed that pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war in 2006-2007.
Shiite militias have so far been largely restrained in their reactions to such bombings.


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