IRAQ: Car bomb targets civilians, kills three, wounds 15 in Baghdad

A car bomb exploded at an intersection near a bakery in the northern Baghdad district of Qahira on Sunday (December 3), killing three people and wounding 15, police source said. "On Sunday, a car was driving at this side of the road, near the market," he said pointing to exact location. He added: "There are four shops, markets ,a bakery and two shops that used to sell children clothes. The owner of the car parked it here, a man who works selling children's' clothes asked him where he was going ? But he managed to escape and minutes later the car exploded next to civilians," Saleh, an eye witness said. The blast came a day after a triple attack near a fruit and vegetable market in a Shi'ite area of central Baghdad, killing at least 51 people in another devastating attack fuelling a vicious cycle of sectarian violence. The bombing came two days after U.S. President George W. Bush met Iraq's prime minister Nuri al-Maliki to discuss ways to avert all-out civil war and 10 days after the bloodiest attack since the U.S. invasion killed more than 200 people in the capital. A dozen cars were charred and market stalls were burnt out. On Friday (December 1), Iraqi and American troops stormed the Fadhil area of the old quarter, backed by U.S. attack helicopters, and fought suspected Sunni militants for several hours.

ITN Source | December 4, 2006

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