- Title: IRAQ: Bombs kill 8 in Ramadi and wound 4 in Baghdad.
- Date: 9th November 2008
- Summary: SIGN "MINISTRY OF HEALTH, ANBAR HEALTH DEPARTMENT/ FORENSIC MEDICINE " POLICEMEN AND HOSPITAL EMPLOYEE INSIDE MORGUE COUNTING BODIES IN WHITE BAGS ON GROUND OF MORGUE MORGUE EMPLOYEE UNVEILING BLOODY BODIES INSIDE MORGUE
- Embargoed: 24th November 2008 12:00
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- Location: Iraq
- Country: Iraq
- Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
- Reuters ID: LVA2O0RSYM0B35N8XQPSTYQMC1MG
- Story Text: Bombs in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi and Baghdad.
Two suicide bombers killed eight people and wounded 14 in an attack on a police headquarters just outside the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Saturday (November 8), police said.
Two local police captains who witnessed the bombing told Reuters four of the dead were policemen and the others civilians.
The bombers detonated their explosive vests simultaneously outside the station, Captain Shakir Aswad said. But another police captain, Mohammed Hatim, said he thought at least one of the bombs was a suicide car bomb driven towards the station.
"At 1330 today a blast took place at Hamidhiya checkpoint on the highway followed by a second blast by explosive belts by the atheists the Takfirists," said Captain Aswad.
It was not clear whether the second bomber had contributed to the casualties or whether all had gone down with the first.
In the capital Baghdad, four employees of the Health Ministry were wounded when a sticky bomb exploded in their car while driving in Baghdad's Haifa Street, Interior ministry sources said.
Officials at the Ministry could not be immediately reached to verify or comment on the attack .
Iraqi and U.S. officials have recently showed concern about an apparent surge in "sticky bombs," explosives fixed to vehicles with magnets or glue, as a tactic for assassinating Iraqi officials.
Such "sticky" bombs may be an efficient way to target politicians or low-level officials for assassination, but they are too small to be used for large-scale, mass killings that have been a favourite tactic of al Qaeda.
Violence has fallen sharply in Iraq over the past year and last month saw the lowest number of violent deaths amongst U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
But militants have shown themselves still capable for carrying out devastating, large-scale attacks. It was unclear who was behind the blasts in Ramadi. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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