IRAQ: Four people killed in car bomb blast in western Baghdad

Record ID: 358154

  • Title: IRAQ: Four people killed in car bomb blast in western Baghdad
  • Date: 26th November 2005
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE)(Arabic) RAMI, BAHJAT, SAYING: "Two cars, a Mercedes and a Cedric passed from here and a car exploded close to them near the restaurant at breakfast time. I saw the explosion and I was afraid so I returned home. Minutes later I returned back and I saw a wounded woman and then police arrived. The explosion was very strong. I called 130 and I told them that there
  • Embargoed: 11th December 2005 12:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,Defence / Military
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  • Story Text: Four people have died in the latest car bomb blast in Baghdad.
    It exploded near a passing U.S. military patrol in the city at breakfast-time on Saturday (November 26). The patrol wasn't hit.
    The bomb went off in Qahtan Square, a busy intersection of western Baghdad where there is a constant flow of traffic. Police said they believed the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber.
    "Two cars, a Mercedes and Cedric passed from here and a car exploded close to them near the restaurant at breakfast time. I saw the explosion and I was afraid so I returned home. Minutes later I returned back and I saw a wounded woman and then police arrived. The explosion was very strong. I called 130 and I told them that there was an explosion and they said that they will come," said Rami Bahjat who was saw the blast.
    There has been a surge in car bombs and suicide attacks by the Sunni Arab-led insurgency over the past week, leading to the deaths of more than 200 people, the vast majority civilians.
    Many of the attacks have targeted the Shi'ite Muslim community, aggravating Iraq's sectarian conflict and pushing the country to the brink of full-blown civil war.
    The violence comes in the run-up to elections on Dec. 15, when voters will chose the country's first four-year parliament since Saddam Hussein was overthrown in 2003.
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