Violence shakes Baghdad

BAGHDAD, February 28.—At least 60 people died this Tuesday in Iraq after an intensification of the violence in the capital, where a mortar attack on a Shiite mosque once again raised fears of a civil war.

Acts of violence also led to the death of two British soldiers in Amara, in the south of the country, and of two Iraqi policemen in the north, AFP reports.

The Iraqi capital, which has been unstable since the attack on a Shiite mosque in Samarra on February 22 that led to confrontations costing the lives of 379 people, thus arousing the specter of civil war, was shaken by a wave of violence despite the acting government deploying tanks throughout the city to maintain the precarious calm.

In the afternoon a car bomb exploded close to a Shiite mosque and a poultry market in the Hurriya district of Baghdad, causing 25 deaths and 43 injuries, according to the Ministry of the Interior.

This attack was preceded by three simultaneous attacks in mixed-religion districts, killing at least 30 Iraqis and wounding another 130, according to police and medical sources.

Six people died and 18 were injured in a car bomb explosion in the Shiite market of Karrada in central Baghdad.