IRAQ: Four dead in Baghdad bombing

Record ID: 357052

  • Title: IRAQ: Four dead in Baghdad bombing
  • Date: 17th February 2009
  • Summary: BAGHDAD, IRAQ (FEBRUARY 16, 2009) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF TRAFFIC IN SADR CITY AT SITE OF BOMBING/ IRAQI MILITARY VEHICLES SEALING OFF ROAD VARIOUS OF MILITARY VEHICLES AND FIRE TENDER AT BLAST SCENE SIGN READING "AL-SHAHEED AL-SADR HOSPITAL"
  • Embargoed: 4th March 2009 12:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,War / Fighting
  • Reuters ID: LVA6Z2E31PFCSHRJCY0GSW1UZX0Q
  • Story Text: A roadside bomb in Baghdad killed four people on a passenger bus and wounded 13 others on Monday (February 16), Iraqi police said.
    The bomb exploded in the northeast of the capital in the sprawling slum of Sadr City, a stronghold of supporters of anti-American Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
    The area was relatively empty on Monday as many Iraqi Shi'ites had travelled to the holy city of Kerbala, 80 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, for one of Shi'ite Islam's most holy rituals, Arbain.
    Police said they did not believe the victims targeted in the bombing were pilgrims returning from Kerbala.
    Violence has reduced across Iraq after years of sectarian strife and resistance to the 2003 US-led invasion but suicide and car bomb attacks are still common.
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