IRAQ: Car bombs kill 16 near Baghdad fuel station.

Record ID: 357062

  • Title: IRAQ: Car bombs kill 16 near Baghdad fuel station.
  • Date: 5th December 2006
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE)(Arabic), ABU ADNAN, SAYING: "A car bomb went off here as people were queuing to buy gasoline (for heating), killing women and children and minutes later a second car exploded and people started to collect bodies"
  • Embargoed: 20th December 2006 12:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: War / Fighting,Defence / Military
  • Reuters ID: LVAA0ZR0XHWWGAQKP9L0R4B5FOWI
  • Story Text: Three cars bombs went off in quick succession near a fuel station in a religiously mixed area of southern Baghdad on Tuesday (December 5), killing 16 people and wounding 25, an Interior Ministry source said.
    "A car bomb went off here as people were queuing to buy gasoline (for heating), killing women and children and minutes later a second car exploded and people started to collect bodies," said Abu Adnan , an eyewitness.
    The attack in the Bayaa area was the latest of a number of multiple car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, including the bloodiest bombing since the U.S. invasion, which killed more than 200 people two weeks ago.
    Early in the day, gunmen killed 15 civilian employees for the Shi'ite Endowment, a body that oversees religious sites and mosques, in an ambush in northern Baghdad , Salah Abdul Razaa, a spokesman for the Shi'ite Endowment, told Reuters.
    Interior Ministry sources said gunmen first set off a car bomb and then sprayed the bus with bullets as it was travelling on a highway in northern Baghdad.
    Iraq is gripped by tit-for-tat sectarian killings between Shi'ite and Sunnis and many Iraqis fear their oil-rich nation passed the point of no return into sectarian division after the destruction of a Shi'ite shrine in February.
    The U.S. envoy and the American military chief in Baghdad implored Iraqis to break a cycle of violence which they said would destroy the country.
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