- Title: IRAQ: BOMBS IN BAGHDAD KILL AT LEAST 25 PEOPLE
- Date: 13th July 2005
- Summary: (BN08) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JULY 13, 2005)(REUTERS) 1. SLV PEOPLE AT CAR BOMB SITE 0.06 2. CU WRECKAGE OF CAR ENGINE 0.10 3. CU SMOKE COMING OUT FROM WRECKAGE 0.14 4. LV PEOPLE NEAR EXPLOSION SITE 0.22 5. CU WRECKAGE OF CAR 0.26 6. SV/CU OF BLOOD ON GROUND (2 SHOTS) 0.35 7. SLV PEOPLE NEAR A HOUSE AFFECTED BY BOMB
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- Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
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- Story Text: Bombs in Baghdad kill at least 25 people.
A suicide car bomber exploded his vehicle near U.S.
troops handing out sweets in Baghdad on Wednesday (July 13, 2005), killing at least 25 people and wounding at 25 more,
many of them children, police sources said.
Residents of Ni'iriya neighbourhood, a poor Shi'ite
neighbourhood east of Baghdad said the blast targeted
children.
"The blast targeted families and not the Americans. It
targeted families, Iraqi citizens and not the Americans.
There were no Americans, no police only families. It is a
residential area," said an Iraqi man who lives in the area.
The victims of the blast, mostly young children, were
taken to the nearby Ibn Al-Nafees hospital, were doctors
rushed to treat severe injuries and burns.
Meanwhile families gathered for large funerals for the
children who were killed by the blast.
Mourners crying and chanting "There is no God but God",
loaded the coffins onto minibuses which transported them to
a burial site.
Jbara Khisan al-Zihiri, an eyewitness explained: "A car
bomb exploded here (points). It targeted only the children
but no Americans. I was standing here. The casualties were
only among the children."
There was further violence in the Iraqi capital when a
roadside bomb exploded close to a U.S. convoy in north
Baghdad, killing an Iraqi child and wounding two other
people.
Two civilian cars were also damaged in the attack.
"Saboteurs planted a bomb on the road, which exploded
close to friendly forces. The friendly forces did not hurt
only the civilians. A child was killed and a woman wounded
and we took them to hospital," a policeman on the site
said.
U.S. and Iraqi forces are battling a mainly Sunni Arab
insurgency against the Shi'ite- and Kurdish-led government
and its U.S. sponsors.
Improvised explosive devices, as the troops call them,
are the biggest single threat to Americans in Iraq. Despite
the fact that many are spotted and defused, dozens still go
off every day.
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