IRAQ: A car bomb goes off near a popular market in Baghdad's Shi'ite district of Sadr City, killing six people and wounding at least 17 others

Record ID: 354728

  • Title: IRAQ: A car bomb goes off near a popular market in Baghdad's Shi'ite district of Sadr City, killing six people and wounding at least 17 others
  • Date: 21st April 2014
  • Summary: SADR CITY, BAGHDAD, IRAQ (APRIL 21, 2014) (AGENCY POOL) **EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: QUALITY AS INCOMING** AMBULANCES ARRIVING ON SCENE WHERE CAR BOMB EXPLODED / SMOKE RISING INTO AIR / PEOPLE WALKING ALONG STREET / AMBULANCE DRIVING AWAY FROM SCENE THREE AMBULANCES ARRIVING AT SCENE OF BOMB BLAST
  • Embargoed: 6th May 2014 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAUZIEKI7NFAZAD5NGZGJH0Y2M
  • Story Text: A car bomb went off near a popular market in Baghdad's Shi'ite district of Sadr City late on Monday (April 21), killing six people, police and hospital sources said.
    At least 17 other civilians were also wounded in the attack.
    Sadr City, a teeming Shi'ite district on the eastern edge of the capital Baghdad is a stronghold of Shi'ite radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mehdi Army. The district has been a frequent scene of bomb attacks.
    Levels of violence rose to their highest in years in 2013, when nearly 8,000 civilians were killed. Security forces are battling Sunni Muslim insurgents in the western province of Anbar, where militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) overran the city of Falluja on January 1.
    Iraqis are preparing to hold parliamentary elections on April 30 with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is seeking a third term.
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