IRAQ: Baghdad police chief survives bomb attack as violence continues across Baghdad.

The chief of the Baghdad police, Major General Ali al-Yassiri, survived a car bomb attack on his motorcade in the centre of the Iraqi capital on Saturday (January 6), sources at police headquarters said. The explosion in a parked car in the commercial Karrada district killed one bystander and wounded three others, as well as wounding three policemen. The police chief, who has been targeted before, was not hurt. In a separate attack, two people were wounded including one policemen when a roadside bomb went off close to a passing police vehicle in Sinaa Street in the centre of Baghdad. The blast also shattered windows of a nearby children's hospital and shops. "A bomb under the market stall and this is a hospital for maternity and children, no one is there except sick people. The bomb exploded on civilians. A civilian car was hit and its driver was hurt and was taken by ambulance to hospital and shops were damaged also," an eyewitness said. A police vehicle and a civilian car were also damaged by the blast. Iraqi police are frequent targets of militants fighting the U.S. military and the Shi'ite-led government. Meanwhile, Iraqis continue to collect their relatives, victims of the raging sectarian violence from Baghdad's morgue.

ITN Source | January 6, 2007

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