IRAQ: Ten killed in suicide bombing outside bakery in Baghdad, many queuing to buy bread for evening Ramadan meal

Record ID: 356218

  • Title: IRAQ: Ten killed in suicide bombing outside bakery in Baghdad, many queuing to buy bread for evening Ramadan meal
  • Date: 16th September 2007
  • Summary: AMBULANCE, CARS AND PEOPLE AT BLAST SCENE PEOPLE CARRYING DEAD BODY TO AMBULANCE WRECKAGE OF CAR SCATTERED ON GROUND OVERTURNED WRECKAGE OF CAR BOMB SMOULDERING AND BLACKENED BUILDING OF BAKERY PEOPLE PICKING THROUGH RUBBLE OF BAKERY MINIVAN WRECKED BY BLAST ANOTHER MINIVAN WITH BROKEN WINDSCREEN FIRE ENGINE ARRIVING AT BLAST SCENE
  • Embargoed: 1st October 2007 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVACKIVFGXGYWLRQ29K28RNFBPCT
  • Story Text: A suicide car bomber killed 10 people and wounded 15 others in southwest Baghdad on Saturday (September 15) evening.
    Many had been queuing outside a bakery to buy bread for the evening Ramadan meal which breaks the day-long fast during the Muslim holy month.
    The blast took place in Baghdad's Shi'ite neighbourhood of al-Amil.
    "There is no checkpoint here and no police centre. At 0720 (a.m.
    Baghdad time) a car came and parked here near people who were queuing to buy bread, all of them were fasting people. Fifteen people were wounded in the attack and 10 were killed," said Ali, a resident of the neighbourhood.
    The bombing was carried out on the same day that an al Qaeda led group, the Islamic State in Iraq, announced a new phase of attacks to mark the month of Ramadan, which started this week.
    In an audiotape posted on the internet on Saturday the group's purported leader, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, renewed a call on Iraqis to fight the U.S.-led forces and their allies.
    The U.S. military says the Islamic State in Iraq is a front organisation set up by al Qaeda in Iraq.
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