IRAQ: One person is killed and several wounded in car bomb explosion in Baghdad

Record ID: 358072

  • Title: IRAQ: One person is killed and several wounded in car bomb explosion in Baghdad
  • Date: 21st January 2006
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) UNIDENTIFIED WITNESS SAYING: "We were sitting in the shop and suddenly we saw fire and then we heard a blast. We turned our heads and saw people running there and there and there"
  • Embargoed: 5th February 2006 12:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,War / Fighting
  • Reuters ID: LVAESJ2JOSJRY1NDZP5VYCBSB3SP
  • Story Text: One person was killed and several wounded when a car bomb exploded close to a market in a Shi'ite district of eastern Baghdad on Saturday (January 21), police said.
    The authorities had warned people of a probable upsurge in violence by Sunni Arab rebels after the announcement on Friday of election results confirming the continued dominance of Shi'ite Islamists.
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