IRAQ: Car bomb wounds eight soldiers in a Western district of Baghdad / Residents of Baghdad's Kadhimiya district inspect damage caused by one of three car bombings

Record ID: 357087

  • Title: IRAQ: Car bomb wounds eight soldiers in a Western district of Baghdad / Residents of Baghdad's Kadhimiya district inspect damage caused by one of three car bombings
  • Date: 21st September 2010
  • Summary: SAYDIYA, BAGHDAD, IRAQ (SEPTEMBER 20, 2010) (REUTERS) SCATTERED DEBRIS OF CAR BOMB AT SCENE MORE OF SCATTERED WRECKAGE OF CAR BOMB/ CARS AND FIRE ENGINE WITH SIREN DRIVING ON ROAD NEARBY SCATTERED PIECES OF CAR BOMB MORE OF SCATTERED PIECES OF CAR BOMB AND ONLOOKERS SCATTERED DEBRIS AT SCENE SCATTERED RUBBLE OF CAR BOMB KADHIMIYA, BAGHDAD, IRAQ (SEPTEMBER 20, 2010)
  • Embargoed: 6th October 2010 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVACGH4AP71O7ZU7QZY485HNK41A
  • Story Text: Eight soldiers were wounded on a main street in a Western district of Baghdad when a car bomb went off early Monday (September 20).
    A police source said an Iraqi army patrol was driving past at the time in Saydiya district.
    Meanwhile, residents of Baghdad's northern district of Kadhimiya inspected damage caused by one of three car bombings. The first targetted a national security office, the second minutes later was at an office of mobile phone operator Asiacell, part-owned by Qatar Telecommunications Co.
    In all at least 18 people were killed.
    Funerals were being held on Monday for some of those who died.
    The blasts came three weeks after the U.S. military formally ended combat operations in Iraq, seven and a half years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
    Overall violence has declined sharply over the past three years but a stubborn Sunni Islamist insurgency, opposed to the Shi'ite Muslim-led authorities who came to power after Saddam's fall, continues to stage regular, devastating attacks.
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