IRAQ: Suicide bomber kills 7 in Baghdad restaurant blast; bomb in central Baghdad kills one; blast kills wife of Tikrit governor

Record ID: 354231

  • Title: IRAQ: Suicide bomber kills 7 in Baghdad restaurant blast; bomb in central Baghdad kills one; blast kills wife of Tikrit governor
  • Date: 12th July 2006
  • Summary: (BN09) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JULY 12, 2006) (REUTERS) WIDE: WRECKAGE LITTERING GROUND OUTSIDE RESTAURANT CLOSE UP: CRATES OF BEVERAGE BOTTLES CLOSE UP: POOL OF BLOOD AND SHARDS OF GLASS AND DEBRIS ON GROUND WIDE: DAMAGED FACADE OF RESTAURANT CLOSE UP: BLOODSTAIN ON GROUND AND SHARDS OF GLASS WIDE: PEOPLE OUTSIDE WRECKED RESTAURANT
  • Embargoed: 27th July 2006 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA9FMKPXOHUNAYW0XURIK207F34
  • Story Text: A suicide bomber walked into a restaurant in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday (July 12) and blew himself up, killing seven people and wounding 20, police said.
    A police source said he counted seven bodies in the restaurant in the New Baghdad district. The bomber's body was disintegrated by the blast.
    A bomb exploded in central Baghdad on Wednesday, killing one civilian and wounding two others, police said. U.S. forces and Iraqi police immediately sealed off area after the blast.
    The wife of the governor of Tikrit was killed when a bomb went off near the private clinic of the wife of the governor of Salahuddin in Tikrit on Tuesday (July 11), police said.
    They said that Dr. Amira Qassim al-Rubaie who is an obstetrician, died of her wounds in Tikrit hospital.
    Police added that two of al-Rubaie's aides were seriously wounded in the blast.
    Tikrit, 150 km (90 miles) north of Baghdad, is the hometown of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein.
    The attacks occurred as U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in an unannounced visit to Iraq, held security talks in Baghdad's fortified "Green Zone" with Iraqi leaders and U.S. military commanders amid worsening sectarian violence that has renewed fears of a slide to civil war.
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