3 killed, 8 wounded in Karbala blast
KARBALA / Aswat al-Iraq: Casualties from the car bomb explosion that ripped through Karbala on Monday evening rose to three dead and eight wounded, director of the health department said.
Three people, including a woman and a policeman, were killed and eight others, including a woman and two children, were wounded in the booby-trapped car blast in north of Karbala, Alaa Hamoudi told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
A police source had said earlier that three civilians were killed and five were wounded in the explosion.
Karbala is 110 km southwest of Baghdad.
Posted by: Steve White 2009-10-27 |