Several killed by Baghdad car bomb

Several killed by Baghdad car bomb

A bomb planted in a parked car has killed nine people and wounded 13 others after it exploded in a busy commercial street of Baghdad, police say.

 
The death toll could rise from the blast, which took place on Sunday in Bayaa, a neighborhood in the south of the Iraqi capital, they said.
 
In a separate attack, two soldiers were killed by sniper fire in Mansour district, General Qassim Moussawi, spokesman for Baghdad's security operations, told the Reuters news agency.
 
Elsewhere in the country, a roadside bomb hit an Iraqi army patrol and wounded an army official.
 
The blast occurred in a main street near the town of Sulaiman Pak, 160km northeast of Baghdad, police said.
 
Five policemen and two civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol in the New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad, police said.
 
In yet another incident, a roadside bomb wounded three policemen and one civilian when it exploded near a police patrol in Qahira district of northern Baghdad, police said.
 
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raqi soldiers search a suspect for weapons and explosives at a checkpoint in Baghdad.
 
Al-JAzeera
 

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