Baghdad, Iraq: Car bomb explosion kills 5

Residents check the wreckage of a vehicle used in a car bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City August 20, 2007. At least five people were killed and 20 wounded when a parked car bomb exploded in the Shi'ite Sadr City district of northeastern Baghdad, police said. REUTERS/Kareem Raheem (IRAQ)


Baghdad car bomb kills five people – police

REUTERS
5:42 a.m. August 20, 2007

BAGHDAD – At least five people were killed when a bomb in a parked car exploded in the Shi'ite Sadr City district of in northeastern Baghdad on Monday, police said.
Another 20 were wounded in the blast.
Sadr city is a sprawling Shi'ite slum and stronghold of the feared Mehdi Army militia loyal to anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
The U.S. military last week announced a major new offensive targeting Sunni Islamist al Qaeda and Shi'ite militias in the run-up to a crucial progress report on Iraq to be delivered to Congress in mid-September.
Washington fears al Qaeda and Shi'ite militias will attempt to influence debate on the unpopular war in Washington by stepping up attacks before the report is delivered.
Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed in waves of sectarian violence since the bombing of a revered Shi'ite shrine in the town of Samarra in February 2006 pushed Iraq to the brink of all-out civil war.
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Firemen respond to the site of a car bomb attack in the Shiite district of Sadr City, in east Baghdad, Iraq on Monday, Aug. 20, 2007, where the blast killed at least three people and wounded six. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)

Car bomb explosion kills four people in Baghdad's Shiite bastion

A car bomb went off in Baghdad's eastern Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding five others, an Interior Ministry source said.
"A car bomb detonated in the afternoon in the al-Sadrain Square in Sadr City neighborhood, killing four people and wounding five others," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
"We can not immediately say whether the attack was committed by a suicide bomber or it was a parking booby-trapped car," the source said, adding the incident is under investigation.
Earlier, a motorcycle bomb explosion ripped through a commercial area near the al-Rusafi Square in downtown, killing at least a civilian and injuring 12 others, also a ministry source said.
The explosion damaged several nearby shops and buildings in the crowded area near the main wholesale market of Shorja in central Baghdad, the source said.
Violence persists in Baghdad as sectarian killings, bombings, and abductions kill dozens daily.
Source: Xinhua

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