[Dawn] A six-year-old girl was killed and eight other people maimed in a series of kabooms Wednesday in the Iraqi city of Baquba, security and hospital officials said.Five bombs went
kaboom!at short intervals in different parts of the city, starting from 0345 GMT, said an official at the operations command centre in Baquba, 60 kilometres north of Storied Baghdad.
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
One of them, which targeted the house of a local leader, killed a six-year-old girl, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
... for fear of being murdered...
Eight other people, including three coppers and five civilians, were maimed, he added.
The first blast struck a car in the city centre, with the others targeting the house of a police officer, another local leader's residence, the house of an anti-Qaeda Death Eaters from the Sahwa group, and a checkpoint.
Doctor Firas al-Dulaimi, at Baquba's general hospital, confirmed the toll from the bombings.