Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Car bomb targets Industry Minister, wounds 75
Security
At least 14 people were killed and 75 wounded in a car bomb attack in central Baghdad on Wednesday which targeted the convoy of Industry Minister Fawzi al-Hariri, Interior Ministry sources said. Hariri, a Kurd, was not in the convoy when it was attacked. The car bomb detonated in the capital's Karrada district in the Christian neighborhood of Camp Sara as the convoy passed, police said. A subsequent roadside bomb blast also caused casualties. Insurgents fighting the Shi'ite-led national unity government have frequently targeted government ministers. A car bomb also killed one person when it exploded in Baghdad's restive, mainly Sunni, Dora district. There have been sectarian attacks in Dora previously and it is an area of Baghdad that was searched during Operation Forward Together, however, despite the searches, death squads and militants return to the areas that have been cleared.
