IRAQ: Car bombs and killings in two violent days across Iraq

Record ID: 357025

  • Title: IRAQ: Car bombs and killings in two violent days across Iraq
  • Date: 18th September 2006
  • Summary: (BN08) YARMOUK DISTRICT, BAGHDAD, IRAQ (SEPTEMBER 18, 2006) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF MOSQUE AL-BIR AL-RAHIM/ PEOPLE STANDING NEAR THE MAIN DOOR CRATER CAUSED BY THE BOMB/ CARS DRIVING BESIDE TRAFFIC SCENE/ PAN TO MOSQUE CRATER SITE WHERE BLAST TOOK PLACE MOSQUE
  • Embargoed: 3rd October 2006 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: War / Fighting
  • Reuters ID: LVA5ZTPA340W1MT3RJRGYL4G7ZJK
  • Story Text: A roadside bomb exploded next to a convoy of sports utility vehicles (SUV's) often used by foreign security firms in Baghdad early on Monday (September 18), setting a vehicle ablaze, Iraqi police said.
    Police said the attack took place in al-Dourra neighbourhood of southern Baghdad.
    There were no reports of casualties and the US forces in Iraq did not give a comment or a report on the attack.
    In western Baghdad, another bomb went off near a Sunni mosque of al-Bir al-Rahim, police said.
    No casualties were reported in this attack that took place in al-Yarmouk neighbourhood.
    Meanwhile, gunmen shot dead four members from a Shi'ite family and wounded five others as they were leaving their homes after receiving threatening letters.
    The killings took place in an area near Baquba called al-Gatoon.
    The attack on a revered Shi'ite shrine in the city of Samarra in February 22 has unleashed bloodletting between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Muslims who were politically dominant under Saddam Hussein and now form the backbone of the three-year-old insurgency.
    Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, is a mixed Sunni and Shi'ite town that has seen frequent attacks by insurgents.
    On Sunday (September 17), car bombs and mortar fire killed five in the western city of Fallujah, including two Iraqi police and one Iraqi soldier in co-ordinated attacks against a U.S. military centre in charge of reconstruction and a bridge.
    No US casualties were reported in the attack, which wounded 23.
    Fallujah, 60 kilometres (37 miles) west of Baghdad, is in Anbar province, Iraq's biggest and most volatile, where U.S. forces are being reduced to reinforce the capital Baghdad.
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