- Title: IRAQ: AT LEAST FIVE KILLED IN SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK
- Date: 18th July 2005
- Summary: (EU) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JULY 16, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. SLV U.S. MILITARY VEHICLES AND POLICE CARS ON BRIDGE; SLV POLICE CARS AT SCENE OF ATTACK ON BRIDGE; LV SCENE OF ATTACK (VARIOUS) 0.20 2. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) QAISAR ISSAM, WHO WAS NEARBY WHEN THE ATTACK HAPPENED, SAYING: "Two vehicles of the commandos of the Interior (ministry) were driving from here
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- Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
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- Story Text: At least five killed in a suicide bomb attack in
southern Baghdad.
A suicide car bomber has targeted a police patrol in
Doura in southern Baghdad on Saturday (July 16, 2005).
A medical source at Yarmouk hospital said three
civilians and two policemen were killed and ten people were
wounded in the attack.
"Two vehicles of the commandos of the Interior
(ministry) were driving from here and a car bomb was
waiting on a sub-road near the main street. The first
vehicle drove past and the car bomb exploded close to the
second. No one knows what had happened there," said Qaisar
Issam, who was close by when the attack happened.
Police said violence also erupted near the northern
city of Mosul. A suicide bomber strapped with explosives
attacked a police station, killing four policemen.
Gunmen also killed two officers and wounded three on
the highway between Hilla and Mahaweel, south of Baghdad,
said police.
In Amara in southeast Iraq, three British soldiers died
in what the Ministry of Defence in London said was a
suspected roadside bomb. It said the deaths brought to 92
the number of British soldiers who have died in Iraq,
including 53 killed in action.
Ten militants blew themselves up across Baghdad on
Friday (July 15) and another attacked Iskindiriya, south of
the capital, killing at least 32 people, police said.
Suicide bombings have consistently undermined
government promises that January elections would pacify the
country, where violence has raised fears Iraq could slide
towards civil war.
Militants, driving cars and blending in with the
population, can strike without detection by security
forces, who themselves have lost hundreds of comrades in
the attacks.
Al Qaeda's Iraq wing, led by Jordanian Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi, boasted that the attacks had given it control
of the capital, but there was no sign of militants in the
streets.
Suicide bombingss, orchestrated by groups of mainly
foreigners like Zarqawi's, have increased sharply since the
Shi'ite and Kurdish-led government took power in April.
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