I’m watching the news, about Paris. In a comments of a blog I read several people have mentioned other massacres yesterday, in Baghdad and Beirut;I followed up by checking the BBC website. In total, approximately 180 died and hundreds more injured yesterday – 127 in Paris, 40 in Beirut, 25 in Baghdad – there may be more deaths to be added. Daesh (IS,ISIS, ISIL) has claimed all three attacks; in the Beirut and Baghdad cases it seems there was a sectarian element, Shia areas were targeted.
It’s heartbreaking, all of it. So many deaths for no reason, so much pain caused for no reason.
And now I have to go to work.
A few links for the story:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34810672
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34821001
