IRAQ: Six dead in Baghdad car bomb

Record ID: 356895

  • Title: IRAQ: Six dead in Baghdad car bomb
  • Date: 6th July 2008
  • Summary: (BN10) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JULY 6, 2008) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL): BLAST SCENE / DEBRIS SCATTERED ON GROUND AND WRECKED CAR IN MIDDLE OF ROAD WRECKED CAR AND WRECKAGE ON STREET U.S. TROOPS NEAR WRECKED CAR/ DEBRIS SCATTERED OVER SCENE WRECKED CAR IRAQI POLICE AND GROUP OF MEN STANDING AROUND MANGLED WRECKAGE OF CAR/ DEBRIS ON STREET U.S. TROOPS EXAMINING SCENE IRAQI POLICEMAN
  • Embargoed: 21st July 2008 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVAU8CWSZMRSZ7ZR77DBL0EE9CC
  • Story Text: A car bomb in Baghdad has killed six and wounded 14 others.
    Six people have died in a car bomb in Iraq. Another 14 people were wounded in the attack in the Shaab district of northern Baghdad.
    Three policemen were wounded in the attack, which targeted a police patrol.
    The bombing comes at what has otherwise been a relative lull in violence in the Iraqi capital.
    Violence in Iraq has dropped to four-year lows, which U.S. officials credit to a surge in U.S. troops last year, a rebellion by Sunni Arab tribal leaders against al Qaeda and a ceasefire by anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
    Numbers from the Health Ministry showed 448 civilians were killed in June in Iraq. Just two months previous to that, in April, there were 968 civilian deaths, a month when fighting spiralled between Shi'ite militias and security forces.
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