Jordan condemns bombing attacks in Iraq

Jordan's King Abdullah II on Sunday condemned a series of bombing attacks in a crowded Baghdad market on Saturday which killed at least 130 people and injured more than 300 others.

In a message to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Abdullah described the explosions as "criminal acts targeting the Iraqi people, Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds".

"Such acts trigger the sectarian sedition among people of one nation and aim to hamper exertion to preserve the national unity and build united Iraq", Abdullah was quoted by Jordan's news agency Petra as saying.

A suicide bomber detonated a truck bomb Saturday at the busy Sadriya market in central Baghdad. According to media report, the attack was designed to inflict a massive physical as well as psychological toll on a population haunted by a string of devastating strikes on other markets, including one Thursday that killed 73 people in the southern city of Hilla, and another in Baghdad last month that killed more than 80.

Source: Xinhua