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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Governor blames security forces for Baghdad carnage AFP - 1 hour 57 minutes ago Send IM Story Print VIDEO - Twin suicide vehicle bombs blamed on Al-Qaeda shattered the justice ministry and a provincial office in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 99 people, injuring more than 700 and sparking turmoil in the embattled Iraqi capital. Images. Duration: 01:04. BAGHDAD (AFP) - – Baghdad's governor on Monday blamed negligence or even collusion by the security forces for devastating twin suicide bombings that killed around 100 people in the heart of the capital. Governor Salah Abdul Razzaq said his office had video footage showing the vehicles which exploded on Sunday, Iraq's deadliest day in more than two years. The near-simultaneous bombings targeting the justice ministry and the Baghdad provincial government headquarters wounded more than 500 and left body parts and charred corpses scattered around the streets of the capital. "It's a human failure... It can only be negligence or collusion," Razzaq told AFP, noting that footage showed a white Renault truck carrying two tonnes of explosives driving up to the justice ministry building. The logo of the Department of Water in Fallujah, a former insurgent bastion west of Baghdad, was painted on the side of the truck, he said. "How did it get from Fallujah to here?" Trucks are barred from entering Baghdad, especially the central Salhiyeh neighbourhood that was targeted, during daylight hours. Razzaq said that the vehicle that was blown up in front of the provincial government building was a Kia minibus. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki chaired an emergency meeting of the National Security Council late on Sunday to discuss the bombings with his military and police chiefs, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said. On Monday, the prime minister said that such attacks would not affect Iraqi support for democracy. On Sunday he had vowed that parliamentary elections scheduled for January would go ahead. Related article: Iraq's bloodshed "The challenge ahead of us is great, but our confidence is also great," Maliki told researchers at an agricultural conference at Baghdad University. "Iraqis will not surrender or give up on their country." "We will not be weak, we will not surrender. We will succeed, not by weapons alone, but through justice and by not distinguishing between Iraqis, by guaranteeing freedoms." Defence ministry spokesman Major General Mohammed al-Askari told AFP that security forces raided two houses in Baghdad, where they found bomb-making materials, and made arrests, but did not specify how many. "It looks like the same materials used on Bloody Wednesday," he said, referring to August 19 bombings at government ministries in Baghdad that killed around 100 people. Askari said the evidence found confirmed the bombers were linked to Al-Qaeda and supporters of the Baath Party of now-executed dictator Saddam Hussein. Several roads in central Baghdad remained closed on Monday, with a heavy security presence on the streets, forcing many commuters to walk part of the way to work. Dozens of Iraqi army humvees lined the roads while new checkpoints were established. Traffic was gridlocked outside a perimeter established around the bomb sites, with few cars allowed in. Razzaq warned that some streets may have to be permanently closed "because of the importance of the ministries." The bombs killed 99 people, a senior health ministry official told AFP on Monday, a figure confirmed by Dabbagh, Razzaq and Major General Qassim Atta, spokesman for the Iraqi army's Baghdad operations. An interior ministry official, however, put the death toll at 155. Among the dead were at least six children who had been playing in a nursery near the justice ministry, while 10 others were wounded. The nursery itself was destroyed by the bomb, with blood covering the ground. At the entrance to the building were several boxes filled with children's shoes. "We took all the injured children to the hospital -- I don't know if they are still alive," said army Colonel Khalil Ibrahim, chief of security at the justice ministry. Al-Karama hospital in central Baghdad, meanwhile, said the force of the blasts was so strong that it could not identify whether some corpses were male or female. In a separate attack on Monday, three people were killed and five wounded in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, south of Baghdad, when a magnetic bomb attached to a minibus exploded, officials said. In the capital, rescue efforts were continuing on Monday. General Waleed Hamid said 600 personnel were sorting through the debris at the scene of the justice ministry bombing alone. "It's possible that we will find more corpses," said Hamid, Baghdad's civil defence chief. The US military, which still has around 120,000 soldiers stationed in Iraq, "provided explosive ordnance disposal teams and forensics personnel to assist with the investigation following the attacks," a military spokesman said. 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