Prashant Rao, a correspondent for AFP, wrote on Friday, “Frustrated with the general lack of attention Iraq receives in the news, I decided to catalogue every single violent or security incident in the country today.”
But how to turn the spotlight on the continuing bloodshed, which has claimed more than 6,000 lives this year in the biggest wave of violence since 2008?
Rao decided to use Twitter and Storify:
1. In Tarmiyah, officials found bodies of 18 people kidnapped by men in army uniforms. All victims shot dead in head or chest.
— Prashant Rao (@prashantrao) November 29, 2013
2. In Baquba's al-Ghatoun neighbourhood, two coordinated roadside bombs killed one person and wounded five others.
— Prashant Rao (@prashantrao) November 29, 2013
3. In Khales (Diyala province), one man was shot dead in front of his home.
— Prashant Rao (@prashantrao) November 29, 2013
4. In Saadiyah (Diyala province). two people were killed by gunmen near their homes.
— Prashant Rao (@prashantrao) November 29, 2013
5. In Sinjar (Nineveh province), a man and his wife were shot dead inside their home. Their daughter was wounded.
— Prashant Rao (@prashantrao) November 29, 2013
6. In Hamam al-Alil (Nineveh province), a roadside bomb targeted the car of local chief Saad al-Juburi. He died in the attack.
— Prashant Rao (@prashantrao) November 29, 2013
7. In Kirkuk city, Haidar Daidar, the son of a local official in the Shiite religious endowment was kidnapped. His whereabouts are unknown.
— Prashant Rao (@prashantrao) November 29, 2013
8. In Hawija (Kirkuk province), 4 soldiers, including 1 lieutenant, were wounded by a roadside bomb that went off near their patrol.
— Prashant Rao (@prashantrao) November 29, 2013
9. In Tikrit, police found bodies of seven men, all labourers or maintenance workers at a local football pitch. Their throats were slashed.
— Prashant Rao (@prashantrao) November 29, 2013
10. In Baghdad, a roadside bomb in Nahrawan near a market for sheep killed two people and wounded four.
— Prashant Rao (@prashantrao) November 29, 2013
11. In Abu Ghraib, a roadside bomb at a market killed one person and wounded five others.
— Prashant Rao (@prashantrao) November 29, 2013
12. In Baghdad, a "sticky bomb" attached to the car of an environment ministry employeein Iskaan went off, killing the civil servant.
— Prashant Rao (@prashantrao) November 29, 2013
13. In east Baghdad, authorities found the bodies of three women in an open field. They were shot dead, their bodies bore signs of torture.
— Prashant Rao (@prashantrao) November 29, 2013
14. In Baghdad, a roadside bomb in Radhwaniyah at a football pitch killed five people and wounded six others.
— Prashant Rao (@prashantrao) November 29, 2013
15. A "sticky bomb" against the car of a worker in Baghdad's mayoralty in Zayouna killed him.
— Prashant Rao (@prashantrao) November 29, 2013
16. In Baghdad, a gun attack against a brothel in Zayouna left five women and one man dead.
— Prashant Rao (@prashantrao) November 29, 2013
17. In Baghdad, militants hung a 31-year-old woman inside her house in Zafraniyah.
— Prashant Rao (@prashantrao) November 29, 2013
A Reuters report on Thursday’s violence:
