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| Two car bombs kill seven people in Iraq on Christmas |
| 2008-12-26 |
| A car bomb near a popular restaurant in northwestern Baghdad killed four people and wounded 25 on Thursday, police said. A few hours later, a suicide car bomber targeting a United States military patrol killed three people and wounded 14 in Muqdadiya, 80 km northeast of Baghdad, the police said. The US military said it was checking if there were any US casualties. The explosion near the restaurant in Baghdad's Shia district of Shula occurred while policemen and labourers were eating breakfast. Casualties included police officers and civilians, police said. The Shia-led Iraqi government declared Thursday, Christmas Day, a national holiday to show what it said was its solidarity with minority non-Muslim religious groups in Iraq. Meanwhile, a bomb blew up and set fire to a crude oil pipeline carrying oil from a town in northern Iraq to the city of Kirkuk, Iraqi and US military officials said. The explosion at around midnight set fire to one pipeline and damaged a second, said the joint US-Iraqi military co-ordination centre in Kirkuk. Exports were not affected. The fire occurred in the town of By Hassan, near the disputed city of Kirkuk, 250 km north of Baghdad, police said. |
| Posted by:Fred |