伊拉克境内卡尔巴拉、拉马迪、巴格达等地1月5日发生多起伤亡惨重的袭击事件，至少造成130人死亡，包括5名美军士兵，创自2005年9月29日以来单日死亡人数新高。

   
据美联社报道，伊拉克西部城市拉马迪的一个警察征募站5日发生一起自杀式爆炸袭击，造成数十人死亡。一名美军发言人称，死亡人数大约为30人。后来当地医院人士告诉记者，已有56人死亡和60人受伤。

   
伊拉克南部城市卡尔巴拉的警方发言人说，卡尔巴拉的侯赛因清真寺附近5日发生一起自杀性袭击事件，造成至少63人死亡，另有120人受伤。美联社称，袭击者可能是在距清真寺约30米的繁忙商业步行区引爆炸弹背心的。据称，炸弹背心里装有大约18磅炸药和多枚手榴弹。

    驻伊拉克美军宣布，当天5名美军士兵在巴格达地区巡逻时遭到路边炸弹袭击身亡。据美联社统计，自从伊拉克战争开始以来，至少2188名美军人员在伊拉克死亡。

   
巴格达当天发生一起汽车炸弹袭击事件，造成3名伊拉克士兵死亡。在其他袭击事件中，武装分子分别打死了3人。这样，伊拉克各地5日遇袭身亡的人数达到了至少130人。
　　

    Iraq experienced the bloodiest day on
Thursday since the historic general elections last month with more than 100
people killed in two suicide bombings.

    Some 50 were killed and at least 85
wounded in a suspected suicide bomb blast in Iraq's Shiite holy city of Karbala,
some 110km south of Baghdad.

    The powerful blast took place among
crowd of Shiite Muslim visitors and street vendors in the narrow area between
the holy Shiite shrines of Imam Abbas and Imam Hussein.

    Shortly afterwards, nearly 70 people
were killed and more than 100 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up
outside a police recruitment center in the western Iraqi town of Ramadi, 110 km
west of Baghdad.

    Taamin hospital said it had received 17
bodies and 40 wounded.

    According to U.S. military statement,
the explosion occurred at 10:55 a.m. (0755 GMT) when approximately 1,000 people
were waiting outside the recruitment center at the al-Taamin district in central
Ramadi to apply for job.

    Two people were killed and two others
wounded when a suicide car bomb hit an Iraqi army patrol in central Baghdad on
Thursday afternoon.

    "A suicide bomber rammed his
vehicle to an Iraqi army patrol at about 2:35 p.m. (1135 GMT) near al-Khallani
mosque, killing a soldier and a civilian and wounding two civilians," an
Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.

    An army vehicle was badly damaged by
the blast, the source added.

    Five US soldiers were also killed on
Thursday when a roadside bomb went off near their patrol in the Iraqi capital,
the US military said.

    The latest wave of violence came a day
after some 30 people were killed and 36 wounded when a suicide bomb attacked a
Shiite Muslim funeral procession northeast of Baghdad.