Aftermath and reaction as series of blasts kill nine in capital

(6 May 2013) 1. Wide of policemen at blast site 2. Various of damaged furniture and debris at cafe 3. Close of bloodstain 4. Various of man picking up pieces of broken crockery 5. Wide of debris 6. Wide of residents looking at damage 7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdullah Hassan, eyewitness: ''What have those innocent people done to deserve this? So many people were either killed or injured.'' 8. Close of debris 9. Various of traffic passing blast site STORYLINE: Shopkeepers in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad were on Monday assessing the damage caused by a bomb blast at an internet cafe the previous day. The explosion was just one of a string of attacks that killed at least nine people and wounded dozens on Sunday. Abdullah Hassan witnessed the bomb attack on the internet cafe in the Sunni-dominated neighbourhood of Jamia, in western Baghdad. ''What have those innocent people done to deserve this?," he said. "So many people were either killed or injured." Police said the first attack came on Sunday morning when a bomb exploded near Zein al-Abideen mosque in the western suburbs, killing a passerby and wounding six. Hours later, in the town of Mahmoudiya, 30 kilometres (20 miles) south of Baghdad, gunmen stormed the mayor's house, killing him and his son. The cafe was attacked late on Sunday, and minutes later mortar shells hit houses on the western edge of Baghdad, killing at least three people and wounding 14. The violence came amid heightened sectarian tension following a deadly security crackdown on a camp in northern Iraq run by Sunnis protesting against what they consider to be their second-class treatment by the Shiite-led government. Government investigators say the incident on 23 April left 40 people dead, while a spate of follow-up attacks and battles has killed well over 200 more. The bloodshed has raised fears that the country could be heading for a new wave of sectarian fighting like that which nearly pushed it to the brink of civil war in the middle of the last decade. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...