Three killed, 33 injured in explosion in Al-Shawrjah, violence in Al-Dawra(KUNA) -- Three Iraqis were killed and another 33 injured today when an explosive device blew up in a popular restaurant in Al-Shawrjah mall in Baghdad, Iraqi Police said. The explosion, now most probably suspected to be a suicide bomber, destroyed the restaurant and several surrounding shops causing chaos in the mall, while ambulances and rescue teams attempted to reach the closest point possible to the site, one kilometer away, where they attended to the injured. Conflicting stories arose earlier, some said it was a suicide bomber and others said it was a bomb planted in the restaurant, it is still to be confirmed.
Moreover, an Iraqi Minister of Interior source said that violent confrontations broke out today between National Police troops and Sunni armed gunmen near Hatem Al-Saadoun Mosque in Al-Dawra town south Baghdad. Violence broke out in Baghdad killing at least 100 civilians and injuring more than 200 others in a sectarian attack on the Jihad town west Baghdad, and the blowing up of two booby-trapped cars in Al-Kisra, and another in Jameela town near Al-Sadir area.
Suicide truck bomb kills four, wounds seven
A suicide truck bomb struck a Kurdish political office in the northern city of Kirkuk on Monday, killing four people and wounding seven others, police said. The truck exploded as it tried to plow through the concrete wall surrounding the complex of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the main Kurdish political parties in Iraq. Four people were killed and seven were wounded, police Brig. Sarhat Qadir said. The oil-rich city of Kirkuk is 290 kilometers north of Baghdad.Eight dead, dozens wounded in Baghdad blast
Two car bombs struck a Shi'ite district in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens, officials said, as sectarian tensions rose following a rampage by Shi'ite gunmen killed 41 people, most of them Sunnis. Gunmen also ambushed a bus in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Amariyah in western Baghdad, killing six of the passengers, including a woman, and the driver, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said.
Iraqi army clashes with gunmen in Ghazaliya district
(KUNA) -- Iraqi army clashed Monday night with gunmen in Ghazaliya district in Western Baghdad, said Iraqi police source without disclosing any information about casualties. The source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) forces from the Iraqi army have besieged gunmen in Ghazaliya and started dismantling bombs planted in the district's streets. He said mortar shells fell in Ghazaliya's houses from nearby districts, noting that the clashes lasted for three hours. Eyewitnesses described the situation as similar to the unrest witnessed in Jihad district a few days ago.
Bus passengers killed by insurgents in Baghdad
(KUNA) -- Bus passengers were Monday killed by unidentified gunmen in the troubled district of Al-Amiriya northern Baghdad, said the Iraqi Police. Local patrols found seven unidentified bodies including a woman in an operation similar to a "genocide," according to police sources. They added that four bodies were found inside the bus and the other three were found laying 10 meters away from the vehicle. Meanwhile, three unidentified bodies were found in Al-Ghadeir district eastern Baghdad.