Suicide Bombers killed 26 at Iraqi state sector bank

The Trade Bank of Iraq was attacked by suicide car bombers last Sunday. It killed at least 26 people

The blasts wounded 53 people at most active financial institutions of the public sector as the sectarian violence that followed the United States led invasion fades in 2003.

For increasing violence they highlighted fears as militants try to exploit the political vacuum that followed the March 7 election and which could not give me any absolute winner.

In Baghdad, gunmen and suicide bombers laid siege to one week earlier, where also 18 people were killed.

Major General Qussim al-Moussawi, the spokesman of Baghdad security said there were two cars that packed with around 80 KG of explosives and each car were driven at the main gates of the Trade Bank and exploded on striking blast-walls that protected the main building.

In the first track the death count was 18 but later on Interior Ministry source told it had risen to 26 of counting. Several bank guards were killed, there was no shatterproof glass in the window of guards and the bank building was badly damaged. At least two police officers were also killed who guarding the Interior Ministry Office nearby.

Mahmoud Asi said "I feel so sorry for what is happening to my country", he also said all the guards of bank’s were killed. He was very much wounded along his wife because their home was nearby of the bank building, his clothes were stained by blood.

June 13 where central bank was attack by Sunni Islamist Insurgents, security officials blamed that day regarding this issue.

Security officials blamed the June 13 central bank attack on Sunni Islamist insurgents linked to al Qaeda, saying they were trying to prove they remained potent after suffering significant blows this year, including the killing of their Iraq leaders.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility this attack of Iraq, but this kind of suicide bombings are the main characteristic of al-Qaeda group and other Sunni Islamist groups.

Now a days Iraqi Security Forces is being targeting by this kind of daily shootings and bombings.