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

Record ID: 357151

  • Title: IRAQ: Car bomb kills one person and wounds six others in central Baghdad
  • Date: 19th February 2008
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) ZIYAD HELAIL, AN IRAQI POLICEMAN SAYING: "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."
  • Embargoed: 5th March 2008 12:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA4YXKRC6D3VEQX4BZHEKXP4KXW
  • 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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