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9 wounded in car bomb blast in Baaquba
DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq: Nine people were killed in a car bomb blast in central Baaquba district on Friday, according to a local police source in Diala.Nine were wounded within an initial count of casualties from an earlier car bomb attack near the Firefighting & Civil Defense Department in New Baaquba neighborhood, in the central part of the district, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. The New Baaquba neighborhood has been the scene for several attacks during the past years, the recent of which was in mid-August, when a car bomb blast went off near a vehicle of the Diala governors guards, leaving two killed and four others wounded. Baaquba, the capital city of the troubled province of Diala, lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad. Posted by: Steve White 2010-11-06 |
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