{"id":341,"date":"2010-05-26T11:49:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T11:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=341"},"modified":"2010-05-26T11:49:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T11:49:52","slug":"deadly-gold-robbery-in-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/05\/26\/341\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly gold robbery in Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"baghdad-gold-market\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/baghdad-gold-market.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"166\" \/>Robbers in Iraq have killed 14 people in an attack on a Baghdad gold market, interior ministry sources have said. The robbers hit nearly a dozen stores in the Bayaa neighborhood, killing the store owners and planting bombs in several of the buildings before fleeing with an unknown amount of gold.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A witness told Reuters one of the bombs exploded, and police said they defused several others.<br \/>&#8220;I heard an explosion and then I saw four dead bodies on the ground close to the gold shops,&#8221; the witness said. &#8220;The police are there and they are not allowing anybody close to the scene.&#8221;<br \/>The area is normally protected by the Iraqi security forces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spate of robberies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gunmen have staged a series of attacks on jewellery stores in the Iraqi capital in recent months.<br \/>In May, gunmen robbed a jewellery store in northern Baghdad and killed the owner and a car bomb planted nearby killed three policemen responding to the robbery.<br \/>Earlier this year, robbers threw a grenade into a jewellery store in Baghdad and when police intervened, three people were killed in the ensuing shootout.<br \/>Last October, eight people were killed when gunmen robbed three jewellery stores in a predominantly Shia neighbourhood. A series of jewellery store robberies in Baghdad&#8217;s Tobchi neighbourhood left seven people dead in April.<br \/>Police rarely make arrests in connection with the robberies, which Iraqi officials have sometimes blamed on members of armed Sunni groups.<br \/>Banks have also become targets for criminals.<br \/>A group of gunmen stole $5m from a central Baghdad bank in July, and killed eight security guards during the robbery. Four members of the Iraqi security forces were later convicted of taking part in the attack.<\/p>\n<p> Source: Al Jazeera and agencies<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robbers in Iraq have killed 14 people in an attack on a Baghdad gold market, interior ministry sources have said. 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