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| Iraq |
| 23 killed in Iraq bombings, shootings |
| 2007-07-24 |
| At least 23 people were killed on Monday in Iraq, including 12 in two car bomb attacks in Baghdad, security officials and medics said. The two blasts occurred within minutes of each other, both of them involving explosives-laden cars in central Baghdad’s Karrada neighbourhood — one on a road and the other targeting a passing police patrol.. At least 12 people, including three policemen, were killed and another 38 were wounded in the attacks, security officials and a medic at the capital’s Ibn Nafis hospital said. Later, a third car bomb rocked an area near Baghdad’s ‘Green Zone’, killing one person and wounding another three. Iraqi security officials said the bomb exploded just 400 metres from the heavily fortified zone, which houses the US and British embassies, and the Iraqi parliament. “The car exploded outside a restaurant on the road leading to the zone. At least one person is killed and three wounded,” a security official said, adding several shops were damaged. A civilian was killed and another seven wounded in a separate roadside bomb blast that struck a minibus in central Baghdad’s Kifah street, security officials said. In another attack on Monday, five Iraqi soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb near the Iranian border. Iraqi army lieutenant Muntadhar Mohammed said the bomb targeted the military patrol between the towns of Badra and Bela Druz. “All five members of the patrol were killed in the early morning attack,” Mohammed said. In Amara, gunmen shot dead a former Baath party member, police said. Gunmen also killed a man and wounded his wife when they shot at the couple’s car on a highway near the town of Iskandiriyah, south of Baghdad, a local police officer said. Another policeman was also killed in an armed assault at a police checkpoint in central Iskandiriyah, he said. He said police also found three corpses of men who were tortured and shot dead in the eastern part of the town. It was not known when they were killed. |
| Posted by:Fred |