Eight killed in suicide car bomb in Iraq
[Ennahar] Eight people were killed and 30 were maimed Sunday morning in a series of suicide car boom in Storied Baghdad and surrounding areas, said an official of the Ministry of Interior.
These attacks followed a wave of violence last week in which 116 people were killed in three days.
In the bloodiest attack, a car blew a passing police patrol in Alam, a district south of the capital, killing two, including a policeman, and wounding eight people, including four coppers, said the police.
Furthermore, at Kazimiya, a Shiite neighborhood of northern Storied Baghdad, another car targeted a bus of Iranian pilgrims, killing one passenger and injuring eight others.
In Abu Nawas Street, in the center of the city, a person was killed and six others were maimed in the same way.
In Karrada, also in the center, four people were maimed, including a policeman, in another attack.
Finally, in Taji, 25 km north of Storied Baghdad on the main road, a car went kaboom! , killing two people and wounding four.
Posted by: Fred 2011-01-24 |