On May 11th at least 81 Iraqis were killed and more than 150 wounded in a series of bomb attacks in northern Iraq and Baghdad. A car bomb killed 38, mostly civilians, and wounded 84 in a busy market area of Tikrit. In Hawijah, northeast of Tikrit, a bomber wearing a belt of explosives struck outside an army recruitment centre, killing 35 and wounding 33. In Baghdad, at least three people were killed and 10 wounded in two separate explosions, one of them outside the Dura police station in the south of the city. In addition, two Iraqi soldiers were killed and five others were wounded in an afternoon attack on their convoy in western Baghdad, a police captain was killed by four armed assailants in Baquba, and a man blew himself up as he tried to sabotage an oil pipeline near the oil city of Kirkuk, about 250km north of Baghdad. In Basra, a bomb exploded near a pipeline that supplies gasoline to one of the largest fertilizer factories in the Middle East, killing one employee, wounding more than 20 and starting a fire that heavily damaged the factory.
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Attacks have increased across Iraq since Jaafari announced his Cabinet in late April. On May 2nd, nine car bombs struck Baghdad. On May 5th, twenty-five people were killed in a series of attacks in Baghdad, bringing the number killed in such attacks during the first 5 days of May to over 200. On May 6th, A car bomb ripped through a busy market south of Baghdad and another smashed into a minibus packed with policemen north of the Iraqi capital, in total killing at least 58 people and wounding over 40. On May 7th, two suicide car bombs went off in a central Baghdad square Saturday, killing 22 people, including two Americans. Over the weekend (May 7th and 8th) seven US soldiers were killed in a series of three bomb explosions. On May 10th, the governor of the western province of Anbar was taken hostage as two more car bombs exploded in Baghdad, killing seven and injuring 47.
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