Attacks killed 15 people across Iraq

Baghdad: Attacks across Iraq has killed 15 people, which also includes a random shooting and killing of a judge, the authorities said.
The surge in the bloodshed is raising fears of a return to the widespread killing that pushed the country to the brink of civil war after the 2003 US-led invasion.

In Tikrit in central Iraq, a car bomb killed Judge Sajid Abdul-Amir as he was driving to his work, the police said. In eastern Baghdad, two people were killed in a blast, the police said. Meanwhile, mortar rounds landed on houses in the capital’s western suburbs, killing two people, the authorities said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, though security forces and civilians are frequently targeted by al-Qaida’s Iraq branch.

With Saturday’s attacks, at least 612 people have been killed since the start of Ramzan. Along with security officials being killed, there have been multiple bloody attacks targeting civilians in cafes as they broke their daily fast. It’s been the bloodiest Ramzan in Iraq since 2007.