IRAQ: Car bomb kills one person and wounds six others in central Baghdad

Record ID: 357150

  • Title: IRAQ: Car bomb kills one person and wounds six others in central Baghdad
  • Date: 19th February 2008
  • Summary: (BN08) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (FEBRUARY 19, 2008) (REUTERS) DAMAGED VEHICLE BEING TOWED BY RECOVERY TRUCK AT BLAST SCENE VARIOUS OF BLOOD STAINS AT BLAST SCENE SANDAL MAN SHOWING BLOOD STAINS ON DEBRIS VARIOUS OF DAMAGED CIVILIAN CAR (2 SHOTS)
  • Embargoed: 5th March 2008 12:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVAEDNN9HHY49WC3N0UIRJUHWUHL
  • Story Text: Car blows up in central Baghdad killing one woman and wounding six others.
    A bomb that was planted inside a car went off close to civilians on Tuesday (February 19), killing a woman and wounding six others, police said.
    They said that the attack took place in the al-Waziriya neighbourhood of central Baghdad.
    "The car was driving from over there (points), when it reached here, it exploded. There was a family, children and the owner of the car inside the booby trapped vehicle, but they did not know about it," said Ziyad Hilayl, a policeman.
    Attacks by insurgents and rival sectarian militias have fallen by 80 percent in Baghdad after a year-long clampdown named "Operation Imposing Law", a senior Iraqi military official said on Saturday.
    Al Qaeda in Iraq, blamed by the U.S. military for most other large-scale bombings, has increasingly used women wearing suicide vests to carry out strikes after increased security and protective concrete walls made car bombings more difficult.
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