IRAQ: 10 PEOPLE KILLED AND 29 WOUNDED AFTER A SUICIDE CAR BOMB EXPLODES NEAR AN IRAQI POLICE PATROL IN SOUTHERN BAGHDAD

Record ID: 358946

  • Title: IRAQ: 10 PEOPLE KILLED AND 29 WOUNDED AFTER A SUICIDE CAR BOMB EXPLODES NEAR AN IRAQI POLICE PATROL IN SOUTHERN BAGHDAD
  • Date: 15th June 2005
  • Summary: (W3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JUNE 15, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS: SITE WHERE SUICIDE BOMBER DETONATED HIMSELF NEAR POLICE; BURNED OUT CARS NEAR SCENE OF BLAST; MAN SPEAKING TO CAMERA (9 SHOTS) 1.11 2. VARIOUS OF POLICE VEHICLES AND AMBULANCES DRIVING DOWN ROAD AT HIGH SPEED (3 SHOTS) 1.32 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limit
  • Embargoed: 30th June 2005 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA4ATY6CMVWRDK52U9ESYZNJZ8N
  • Story Text: Ten killed and 29 wounded in car bombing near an
    Iraqi police patrol in southern Baghdad..


    A car bomb exploded near an Iraqi police patrol in
    southern Baghdad on Wednesday (June 15, 2005), killing at least
    10 people and wounding 29, police said.

    The blast occurred in the Zaffraniya district of the
    city, blowing a crater in the road and destroying half a
    dozen cars, including several police vehicles. Police and
    civilians were among the dead and wounded, police said.

    It was the second large bomb attack of the day.

    Earlier, a suicide bomber wearing an Iraqi army uniform
    killed at least 23 people and wounded 29 at an army mess
    hall north of the capital, police and military sources
    said.

    The building was left charred and ruined after the
    blast in the town of Khalis, 60 km (40 miles) north of
    Baghdad, near the town of Baquba.

    Iraq has seen a surge in suicide car bombings since
    late April, when a new Shi'ite-led government was named.

    Several of those attacks have happened in the Baquba area
    and most of them have targeted Iraq's Shi'ite-dominated
    security forces.


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