Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Car bombs continue across Baghdad
Security
(DPA) At least 11 Iraqis were killed and 45 others injured Tuesday in a series of attacks across war-torn Iraq, Iraqi police sources and witnesses said. A suicide bomber blew himself up in a car bomb in the Karada district near the Green Zone, killing three Iraqis and wounding 17 others, an Iraqi police source said. Elsewhere in Baghdad, another suicide bomber detonated a car bomb inside an Iraqi military checkpoint in the Jamaa district in western Baghdad, killing a soldier and wounding another, an Iraqi police source said.
In central Baghdad, a remote-controlled car bomb went off near a police station in the crowded Sheik Omar district, killing at least five Iraqis and wounding 17 others. Also Tuesday, two Iraqis were killed and six others were wounded in a roadside car bomb in a commercial complex in the Karada district. In southern Baghdad, at least four Iraqis were wounded Tuesday when a mortar shell struck the Walid residential district, witnesses said.
In central Baghdad, a remote-controlled car bomb went off near a police station in the crowded Sheik Omar district, killing at least five Iraqis and wounding 17 others. Also Tuesday, two Iraqis were killed and six others were wounded in a roadside car bomb in a commercial complex in the Karada district. In southern Baghdad, at least four Iraqis were wounded Tuesday when a mortar shell struck the Walid residential district, witnesses said.
Labels: Jamaa, Karrada, Sheik Omar, suicide bomber, Walid
