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| Eight killed in Baghdad blasts |
| 2004-11-09 |
| Car bombs at two Baghdad churches and outside a hospital treating the victims of those attacks have killed at least eight people and wounded dozens as a wave of blasts struck the Iraqi capital. A car bomb exploded outside St George's Catholic church in southern Baghdad just before 6.30pm (1530 GMT), followed minutes later by a second outside St Matthew's church. Victims from both blasts, some carried by injured friends or relatives in torn and bloodstained clothes, were rushed to Yarmuk hospital. A doctor said at least three people were killed and 40 injured. A few hours later, a car bomber ploughed into four police cars parked outside the hospital entrance, killing at least five policemen, police said. Several more explosions echoed across the city later in the night, but there was no immediate word on casualties. The wave of bombings swept Baghdad as US marines began their full-scale offensive to capture the besieged city of Falluja, 50km west of the capital. |
| Posted by:Fred |