IRAQ: At least twenty people are killed after a series of blasts rock Baghdad

Record ID: 354326

  • Title: IRAQ: At least twenty people are killed after a series of blasts rock Baghdad
  • Date: 13th March 2006
  • Summary: AMBULANCE ARRIVING AT HOSPITAL EXTERIOR OF AL-YARMOUK HOSPITAL
  • Embargoed: 28th March 2006 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,Health
  • Reuters ID: LVA3YAR3X88EO3DJA9LH1ML7TPCM
  • Story Text: Another day of violence in Iraq, with separate explosions killing at least twenty people in the capital of Baghdad on Sunday (March 12).
    At least six people were killed and 14 wounded when a roadside bomb targeting an American patrol exploded near a rail line in western Baghdad, police said. Some of the victims were police officers.
    Separately, two Iraqi soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb exploded as their patrol passed in central Baghdad. Four other soldiers were wounded.
    Earlier, another roadside bomb targeted an Iraqi army patrol in Mustansiriya square in eastern Baghdad, wounding five soldiers, police said.
    Two other civilians were killed and at least four wounded when a mortar hit a paint supply shop in central Baghdad. Another mortar bomb hit a house in the capital's eastern Jamila district, wounding two.
    The blast gouged out a crater in the wall from which it entered the house, damaging furniture inside.
    The real target of the attack was not known.
    The blasts came hours before the trial of Saddam Hussein was due to resume in Baghdad. Saddam and seven others are charged with crimes against humanity in connection with the execution of 148 villagers from Dujail after an assassination attempt on his life there in 1982.
    Officials at Yarmouk Hospital, one of Baghdad's biggest, said they had received at least 20 bodies overnight, all victims of violence. Most had been shot.
    The source said that the hospital received 15 bullet-riddled bodies late on Saturday while another five bodies were brought in the hospital early on Sunday .
    The dumping of bodies bearing signs of torture and killed execution-style has become a feature of a sectarian "dirty war" being waged among Iraqi armed factions.
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