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More civilian lives lost in Iraq violence | |
2009-08-28 | |
[Iran Press TV Latest] At least four people have lost their lives and fourteen others have sustained injuries in the latest string of attacks to hit conflict-plagued Iraq.
Security forces reportedly sealed off the area and rushed the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment. The bombing incident followed another attack on Thursday morning in which one civilian was killed and five others wounded in a car bomb explosion north of the volatile Iraqi capital. An unnamed police source told Voices of Iraq news agency that the explosives-rigged car was detonated on the main road in al-Taji district north of Baghdad. At least five persons were injured on Wednesday when a booby-trapped car exploded close to a police checkpoint at Wahran intersection in eastern Baghdad Elsewhere, a civilian on a bus in Mosul was shot down Wednesday by unidentified assailants at al-Yarmook district west of the disrupted northern Iraqi city. The gunman fled the scene after the attack. Two civilians were also killed Wednesday in Mosul when an improvised explosive device placed in a car went off in al-Faisaliya distrct of eastern Mosul. A volatile ethnic mix of Sunni Arabs, Kurds and Christians, Mosul remains the scene of frequent shootings and bombings, and US commanders regard the once cosmopolitan city as the last urban bastion of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. The capital city of Iraq's Nineveh Province is situated some 396 km (250 miles) northwest of Baghdad. | |
Posted by:Fred |
#1 I suspect that Chicago tops this. |
Posted by: tipover 2009-08-28 02:50 |