IRAQ: Fifteen dead in Baghdad suicide car bombing

Record ID: 356713

  • Title: IRAQ: Fifteen dead in Baghdad suicide car bombing
  • Date: 1st August 2007
  • Summary: W2) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (AUGUST 1, 2007) (REUTERS) SMOKE RISING ON SKYLINE VARIOUS OF BURNT CARS AT SITE / PEOPLE WALKING AMONG DEBRIS ON STREET BURNT CARS AT SITE / TOW TRUCK IN BACKGROUND VARIOUS OF BURNT VEHICLES AT BLAST SCENE AND PEOPLE LOOKING ON AT SCENE CRATER IN MIDDLE OF STREET AND PEOPLE STANDING NEAR BURNT CARS NEAR POPULAR ICE-CREAM SHOP/ POOL OF WATER IN STREET
  • Embargoed: 16th August 2007 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA6QC1QHEOCJPHQB1HZVGX086CO
  • Story Text: Suicide car bomb attack in Baghdad kills 15 people and wounds 20 others.
    Fifteen people were killed and 20 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in the mainly Shi'ite Karrada district of central Baghdad on Wednesday (August 1), police said.
    The bomb in a four-wheel drive vehicle went off in a bustling commercial area full of electronics stores and near a popular ice-cream shop.
    Karrada, on the eastern side of the Tigris River, is normally one of the more stable areas in the Iraqi capital but has been hit by a string of bombs in the past 10 days.
    U.S. and Iraqi forces have stepped up security operations in Baghdad since mid-February in an attempt to stem bombings, many of them blamed on al Qaeda, the Sunni Islamist group that U.S. officials say is trying to spark a full-scale civil war in Iraq.
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