IRAQ: Three blasts in Baghdad kill 29 people and wound 6

A car bomb exploded next to an Iraqi police convoy in central Baghdad on Sunday (September 10), killing three and wounding 12 others, police said. They said that most of the casualties were policemen. Earlier today, a bomb exploded in a popular market in Bab al-Sharji in central Baghdad, killing at least 3 people and wounding 15. According to witnesses the blast was caused by a bomb in a plastic bag left among street vendors and detonated by a remote control device. "It is a terrorist explosion which targeted poor people who were sitting here selling mobile phones. What does it mean? It is terrorism. People were hoping that the situation would get better following the reconciliation drive, but nothing has changed," said Uday Mahmoud, an eyewitness. Interior Ministry sources also reported that a roadside bomb had exploded earlier near a police patrol in eastern Baghdad wounding two policemen. Violence involving the targeting of civilians and Iraqi police gripped other parts of Iraq on Saturday (September 9), including Baquba, Fatha, Mosul and Falluja. Sectarian violence in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, killed 5 people and wounded 14 and gunmen assassinated police General Majeed al-Mani and two of his bodyguards while he was on a shopping trip. Iraqi soldiers killed four insurgents when they repelled an ambush on a road near the town of Fatha southwest of Kirkuk, a barber in Mosul was killed by gunmen and civilians in Falluja were caught in the crossfire during battles between insurgents and a U.S. patrol.

ITN Source | September 11, 2006

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