IRAQ: Three people killed in Baghdad car bomb

Record ID: 357315

  • Title: IRAQ: Three people killed in Baghdad car bomb
  • Date: 15th April 2008
  • Summary: (BN10) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (APRIL 15, 2008) (REUTERS) PEOPLE STANDING AROUND BLAST SITE IN CENTRAL BAGHDAD PEOPLE AT BLAST SITE/ FIRE ENGINE VARIOUS OF FIRE ENGINES AT BLAST SITE CAR WRECKAGE ON GROUND, INJURED BEING PUT IN AMBULANCE (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) IRAQI POLICE MAJOR-GENERAL ALI YASSIN: ''It was a car bomb exploding at a time when civilian cars and people where passing by
  • Embargoed: 30th April 2008 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: War / Fighting
  • Reuters ID: LVA5SM5FT6H72TO5KKBXO6YOEMNE
  • Story Text: A car bomb in central Baghdad kills three and wounding several others, police said.
    Three people were killed and eight wounded in car bomb attack in central Baghdad on Monday (April 15), police said. The target was an Iraqi police convoy.
    Another source said the blast occurred while a convoy carrying an Iraqi police commander was driving through the area in Karrada, central Baghdad, wounding him and five policemen. The blast wrecked three police vehicles.
    But an Iraqi police commander on the scene said the blast targeted only civilians.
    ''It was a car bomb exploding at a time when civilian cars and people where passing by causing damage to several cars and wounding several people," said Major-General Ali Yassin.
    Elsewhere in Iraq, a car bomb killed 40 people and wounded 80 in the city of Baquba, 65 km (42 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
    And in Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, a suicide car bomb killed 13 people and wounded 14 others near a restaurant, a hospital source said.
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