IRAQ: IED kills one civilian and wounds five in central Baghdad

Record ID: 357014

  • Title: IRAQ: IED kills one civilian and wounds five in central Baghdad
  • Date: 15th April 2010
  • Summary: BAGHDAD, IRAQ (APRIL 14, 2010) (REUTERS) IRAQI SECURITY FORCES BACKED BY FIRE ENGINE GATHERING AT BLAST SCENE MORE OF FIRE ENGINE AT BLAST SCENE VARIOUS OF IRAQI SECURITY FORCES GATHERING AT ENTRANCE OF ROAD LEADING TO SPORTSWEAR SHOP WHERE A BOMB EXPLODED AMBULANCE AND FIRE ENGINE AT BLAST SCENE MAN CARRYING WOUNDED BOY AT AL-KINDEE HOSPITAL AMBULANCE ARRIVING WOMA
  • Embargoed: 30th April 2010 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVACR720MAK38RP6OVR15AVTVAXC
  • Story Text: An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off inside sport clothes shop in central Baghdad on Wednesday (April 14), killing one civilian and wounding five others, police said.
    They said that the blast took place in al-Rasheed street of central Baghdad.
    Early in the day, a bomb attached to a car in al-Nisour Square in central Baghdad killed Brigadier Arkan Mohammed Ali, a counter-terrorism officer at the Interior Ministry, and wounded three people including a traffic police officer, police said.
    Then, gunmen shot and killed an imam at the al-Rahman al-Raheem mosque near his house in Baghdad's northern Adhamiya district, police added.
    Hundreds people have died or been wounded in attacks around the capital in the last week, almost a month after parliamentary elections.
    Iraqi security forces had predicted a possible upturn of violence following the March 7 election, which highlighted Iraq's sectarian divide.
    Meanwhile, the formation of a new government could still be weeks or months away.
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