IRAQ: Attacks in three Baghdad districts kill nine and wound 29

A series of attacks kills nine people and wounds 29 in various districts of Baghdad. Three separate attacks killed nine people and wounded 29 in different parts of Baghdad on Thursday (April 26). Two car bombs killed one person and wounded three in Bayya district of southwestern Baghdad, police said. "A car bomb exploded next to Babil bank, in Eshreen street. There were mortar shells inside the car bomb too. It exploded, burning a man with his motorbike and wounding four others," said a policeman at the scene. At least six people were killed and 15 wounded in a car bomb blast in the Jadriya district of southern Baghdad on Thursday, police and an Interior Ministry source said. The Interior Ministry source said the car carrying the bomb was parked on the street between Baghdad University and the Al-Hamra Hotel in the religiously mixed neighbourhood. Many nearby vehicles were burning, police said. "A Kia (vehicle) exploded here next to civilians, (wounding) a man inside cigarette shop and a baker, too. They are innocent people. The Kia was driving on the main road that leads to al-Bayaa. Three were killed, innocent people. They should target Americans but not the innocent civilians." said a witness, Kamel. In southern Baghdad, two people were killed and 11 wounded when mortar rounds landed in the Shi'ite Abu Dshir district, police said. Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops have been conducting a security crackdown in Baghdad since mid-February to try to prevent Iraq slipping into all-out civil war between majority Shi'ites and once-dominant Sunni Arabs. A suicide bomber killed 10 people and wounded 21 when he rammed his car into a petrol tanker in Jadriya a week ago. Despite the security crackdown, sectarian death squads, car bombs and suicide attacks still plague the city.

ITN Source | April 27, 2007

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