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| Iraq | |
| Car bombs hit Ramadi, Falluja | |
| 2010-08-09 | |
The blasts followed a series of explosions at a busy market in the centre of Iraq’s southern oil hub Basra late on Saturday that killed at least 43 and wounded 185, officials said. In the northern city of Mosul, considered one of Iraq’s most dangerous places in recent months, a roadside bomb exploded near a convoy transporting Atheel Al Nujaifi, the governor of Nineveh province, from his home to work on Sunday, police said. Nujaifi and his staff escaped injury in the initial blast, which took place on a road that is considered one of the safest in Mosul. But a second roadside bomb exploded when police responded to the scene, wounding three officers, police said. In Falluja, about 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, three car bomb blasts — two of them targeting police patrols — killed at least four people and wounded more than two dozen others, police and medical sources said. One of the car bombs was left behind by gunmen who robbed a currency exchange merchant of $85,000 at his home, police said. In Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west of the capital, a car bomb exploded near a restaurant on a busy main street, killing at least eight people and wounding 50, police said. In three other attacks in restive Mosul, nine people were wounded when a hand grenade was thrown into a crowd of civilians and four others were hurt when roadside bombs exploded near police and army patrols, police said. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |